00:00This is footage from the Pacific Theater of World War II, taken about 70 years ago.
00:22Color reconstruction of the film using clues from materials of the time has brought realities obscured in the original black and white reels vividly to light.
00:37Young men on a special mission are getting their gear camouflaged with black ink.
00:51They are carrying bombs.
00:59But attached to one of their backpacks is a small doll, a talisman.
01:14On the 70th year marking the end of World War II, NHK has produced a documentary about the Pacific War featuring archival footage that we have restored and colorized.
01:30The hues were determined with the help of experts in barriers fields.
01:34The latest digital technology was employed to reconstruct the colors as faithfully as possible.
01:40Footage originally shot in color was also added to depict the Pacific War as fully as possible.
01:58Color shows realities not always visible in black and white.
02:12The Japanese people from children to adults faced all-out conflict.
02:28This documentary shows the war as they lived it.
02:32This documentary shows the war as they lived it.
02:36This documentary shows the war as a man who was published in a long time ago.
02:56eight months from the beginning to the end of the Pacific War.
03:04This is a full-color record of the Japanese people and the war.
03:26In the pre-dawn hours of December 8, 1941, Japan time, Japanese forces were standing by in the waters off Hawaii.
03:52They attacked Pearl Harbor and the Pacific War began.
04:04The United States was strengthening an economic embargo against Japan and diplomatic negotiations had broken down.
04:13So Japan decided to go to war.
04:16We interrupt this program to bring you a special news bullet.
04:24The Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by air. President Roscoe.
04:28The surprise attack shocked the United States.
04:38When footage of the attack on Pearl Harbor is viewed in color, the destruction can be seen vividly in flames and black smoke.
04:48When footage of the attack on Pearl Harbor is viewed in color, the destruction can be seen vividly in flames and black smoke.
05:00When footage of the attack on Pearl Harbor is viewed in light, the destruction can be seen in light, and the destruction can be seen in light.
05:12On a clear winter day, a radio broadcast announced the nation had entered into war.
05:32Trepidation, a sense that Japan had taken an irrevocable step in waging war against the United States, can be seen on the faces of the people in the film.
05:43The Japanese military launched operations in Southeast Asia around the same time it attacked Pearl Harbor.
05:59This was aimed at acquiring resources in the region such as oil.
06:08Japan's government called this the Greater East Asia War.
06:20The public was informed that the war was to liberate colonized Asian nations from the United States and the powers in Europe.
06:28And that a new order called the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere was to be formed with Japan at its center.
06:37Singapore! Singapore!
06:44Singapore!
06:46Shouhei Shouhei Shouhei Aki Aboroshini Ono!
06:50About two months into the war, Japanese troops began streaming south down the Malay Peninsula.
06:57After a fierce battle against British troops based in Singapore, Japan captured the island.
07:10This is a newsreel from Japan.
07:23The British Empire's flag and a white flag signifying surrender are brought out.
07:44This is the historical meeting where Japanese Lieutenant General Tomoyuki Yamashita cemented his fame and his nickname, the Tiger of Malaya.
07:59The British Empire's flags in , Japanese Echisi.
08:02The British Empire began to be a fierce battle against the Japanese war.
08:07After a
08:16the last year in September, the Japanese war was formed into the U-K-Di-Kish three-kib�.
08:22The U-K-kibou-Kish one, and its strong war, the U-K-Yoshi buch, and his strong war.
08:28Behind the glorious victories, lay high Japanese casualties.
08:50The colorized film highlights the white boxes containing the remains of the war dead.
08:58The colorized film is the same as the all-in-the-art film.
09:08各手、カビウン。
09:09無月占領は滞りなく完了しました。
09:12ビルマ第一の仏塔。
09:15指導頓田後田の下。
09:17後軍堂々の二条。
09:21パッと一斉に開いた大輪の花。
09:24Ima Jun Paku no Rakka San wa Miuto ni hirai te
09:26Iittai mata Iittai to IIT de Konpiki no Sora o Amakudan
09:34Dai Nippon Teigoku!
09:36Ikaigun Vanzaai!
09:39Vanzaai!
09:41Vanzaai!
09:45Two months into the war, scenes of crowds jubilantly celebrating the victories were filmed across the country.
09:54DECEMBER 7, 1941
10:08Before long, the U.S. counterattacks began.
10:14No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion,
10:22the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.
10:29The first time a battlefield in the Pacific War was filmed in color was about six months into the conflict.
10:32The first time a battlefield in the Pacific War was filmed in color was about six months into the conflict.
10:36This coincided with the turning point in the war.
10:39The first time a battlefield in the Pacific War was filmed in color was about six months into the conflict.
10:43This coincided with the turning point in the war.
10:50The first time a battlefield in the Pacific War was filmed in color was about six months into the conflict.
10:58This coincided with the turning point in the war.
11:01This coincided with the turning point in the war.
11:05In the Battle of Midway, the Imperial Japanese military suffered its first overwhelming defeat since the start of the Pacific War.
11:22Aircraft carriers were sunk and hundreds of aircraft were destroyed in the battle.
11:27But the people back home in Japan were not told the truth about Midway.
11:55This map shows how far the Japanese military had advanced across the Asia Pacific in 1942.
12:02The trigger of the Pacific War occurred in 1931 when Japan's military staged an event as a pretext and overran what was then called Manchuria.
12:16Six years later, it invaded the Chinese continent.
12:20The Pacific War started as fighting with China continued.
12:25The battles of the Pacific War extended across a wide area, from the freezing snows of the Aleutian Islands in the north to warm tropical regions in the south.
12:40As the war's battle lines expanded, the systems to supply weapons and food began to break down.
12:59Officers and soldiers preparing to fight the enemy had to operate under punishing conditions.
13:09There's very little food left.
13:19Since we landed, the daily ration of rice has been reduced to 150 grams.
13:29But it's running out.
13:36It's a hopeless situation.
13:48The service men fought on the front lines, but they were also supported on the home front.
13:55One important role of women back home was to send care packages to service men on the front lines.
14:09The colonized historical footage shows that people were going about their daily lives in ways little different from today.
14:39Footage taken across the country provides a remarkable record of places and scenes before they were destroyed in the Pacific War.
15:08Hiroshima's commercial exhibition hall is captured in footage of the city.
15:15It later became the Atomic Bomb Dome.
15:18For the first time since the war began, the Japanese military fought elite US troops in a full-scale ground battle.
15:37I never expected the American troops to be powerful.
15:44We were told they would run if we made a bayonet charge with our rifles.
16:02but one of them has demonstrated the Japanese military in a full-scale ground battle.
