There are a lot of important people here, including one man in a rickshaw, with another to hold an umbrella over his head. Where they are going,or why they are going is never revealed to us, but, just as in th West, when important people do anything -- or even simple celebrities -- some one is recording it.
It's a production of the Hepworth Moving Company in Japan -- almost certainly a branch of the company established for the purpose of shooting films there. Hepworth is credited for some shorts in 1901 that were released by Warwick. Now he is distributing his own films.