Frame from a Japanese newsreel of Wang Jingwei's New Year address, "Sekai no reimei" (Dawn of the Century)
Black-and-white newsreel frame: a man in a high-collared military-style uniform with three medals speaks, a Chinese Nationalist sun emblem flag behind him, with white vertical Japanese subtitles at left and an NHK archive watermark. The subtitle has him say it is the time to build 'together with our allied Japan' (testimonial: a named Chinese leader's voice is used inside a Japanese-produced reel to vouch for the partnership).
- Date
- December 30, 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Nippon Eigasha (Japan Film Company, newsreel producer); archived by NHK
- Region
- East Asia
- Country
- Empire of Japan
- Medium
- Film stills
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Showa Japan
- Leader
- Hideki Tojo
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Techniques
- Testimonial
- Leader
- Hideki Tōjō
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (video thumbnail; original NHK Archives), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (Commons tag PD-Japan-film; Japanese 50-year film term ended before 1 January 1996 URAA date, so PD in US)
Nippon Eigasha / NHK Archives; frame via Wikimedia Commons
Text on the object
盟邦日本と共々建設せ んとする秋である
It is the time when we are about to build together with our allied nation Japan.
Two vertical subtitle columns, read right to left; the first character of the left column is partly obscured by the film's edge and read as 'ん' in context. The NHK logo at upper left is an archive watermark and omitted.
