Summary: Documentary on Japan and her geopolitical interests in Asia.
Description: The film's director Colin Ross travels in a car flying the flags of Nazi Germany and Japan and discovers many affinities between the two countries. Modernisation and industrialisation have given Japan a new face but have not upset the social harmony of the people, who remain patriotic, devout and attached to their ancient traditions of family life and hospitality. Strength of social and artistic conventions matches the survival of ancient methods of rice cultivation and the practice of traditional martial sports. Struggle with nature has moulded the national character, now further strengthened by pupils from the special schools which teach the physical and spiritual exercises of Japan's heroic past. Nation, which is overcrowded, is well qualified to create a new order in Asia, and Korea and Manchukuo are already enjoying the benefits of Japanese military instruction, industrial development and the presence of Japanese families living in their own style. New order (street scenes in Peking and primitive temple ceremony in Jehol) is still expanding on land and sea, so Hong Kong appears particularly vulnerable to Japanese maritime supremacy and the militarist fervour permeating the ceremonies which commemorate the national day of mourning for the war dead.
