Pre-WWII Japanese Colonial Expansion into China
While Japanese colonial emigrants were lured to the mainland with films
that showed wealthy villages where Japanese customs ruled, immigrant laborers
to Japan were made to fit into a cultural “mold” enforced through
police surveillance, and police-run mandatory cultural education. This
film, made by the Japanese government in the 1930s shows the good life
for Japanese colonists in Manchuria. Notice the Shinto Shrine and the abundant
harvest. SOURCE: NHK TV