Hokushin Nippon R8 of 10

Hokushin Nippon R8 of 10 Japanese economic & defense interests in Sakhalin and Kuriles Islands, Kamchatka, Russia. Craggy peaks & lookingdown at coastline, flowering shrubs, Japanese man w/ pack sitting looking out. Man polng small raft on lake. Birch trees & wild flower meadows. Barn, dairy cattle grazing. Sheep and boy tending. 04:08:39 Large pigs in pen. High angle of farm in valley. Men clearing land, men & women chopping w/ hoes. Plowing w/ horse teams. Clearing stumps w/ bulldozer. Plowingw/ tracked bulldozer, discing. Woman seeding by hand, another following & covering. Large leaf crop. Grains. large leaf crop. 04:12:04 Women gathering kelp, washing & taking ashore. Drying. 04:12:31 Pan over mining village. Men in mine w/ headlamps & drilling for minerals or ?? Shoveling w/o clothes. Mine train out. Stream w/ timber jammed on both sides in clear cut hillsides. Men on water poling logs Some wearing mosquito nets. Logs into pond & sorted into log rafts. 04:14:11 Aerial over river w/ ox-bows, logs tied up. 04:14:26 Logs loaded from bay into large freighter. POV from train past sawmill. Man working very large rotary blade saw cutting logs into lengths. Men moving logs under splitter. Wood chips moving as pulp on conveyor bilt, women picking out ?? Paper slurry past. 04:16:12 Large rolls of paper off machine in paper mill. 1930s Colonialism; Japanese Expansionism; Arctic; Seasons; Settling; Industry; Natural Resources