The Enemy We Face in the Pacific

The National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated stations present the Pacific story. In the mounting fury of world conflict, events in the Pacific are taking on ever greater importance. Here is the story of the Pacific and the millions of people who live around this greatest sea.

The drama of the people whose destiny is at stake in the Pacific War. Here as another public service is the tale of the war in the Pacific and its meaning to us and to the generations to come.

to come. The enemy we face in the Pacific. Behind her ramparts, Japan is consolidating a powerful empire geared to high-powered warfare and dedicated to a dreadful fight to the finish. Japan now has an empire over more than a three million square miles. Three million square miles. See, Japanese Empire now has a population

more than 400 million people. 400 million workers and fighters. We will win. This is Kichiro Asami. Kichiro Asami is the average Japanese on the home front. He has been preparing for this war all the years of his life.

He works 11 to 14 hours a day in the factory. He works seven days a week. From 25 to 90 percent of his earnings go into the Japanese war effort. This is a racial war.

He has been taught this since he was a child. This is a war of the peoples of Greater East Asia, against the whites. This is a hundred year war. We will win. It's here to Assami, gets up off his mattress on the floor before light in the morning.

He eats rice, fermented bean soup, raw fish and pickles for breakfast. Then he goes to his job in the factory. He works 11 to 14 hours a day. He comes home in the dark. He eats rice, eels, raw roots, drinks tea, takes a bath and lays himself down to sleep on his mattress on the floor.