This short film examines the Japan that emerged at the beginning of the 1900s and was firmly established as an industrialized nation by the outbreak of World War II. Facing the greatest threat in their history, the democracies of the Pacific took careful stock of this new Japan and its strength, and erected a vast system of defence across the world's greatest ocean.

Credits

Stuart LeggDirector

Lorne GreeneNarrator (voice)

Emperor Hirohito of JapanHimself (archive footage)

Aisin-Gioro PuyiHimself (archive footage)