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Japanese propaganda poster featuring Japanese agrarian immigrants in Manchukuo, designed for English speakers. The Allies were also attacked as weak and effete, unable to sustain a long war, a view at first supported by a string of victories. [176] The lack of a warrior tradition such as bushido reinforced this belief. [177]
My Japan is a 1945 [1] American anti-Japanese propaganda short film produced to spur sale of American war bonds. The film takes the form of a mock travelogue of Japan, presented by an impersonated Japanese narrator.
The trio was part of Japan's cultural propaganda efforts during the Second World War, aimed at promoting the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere—a concept that sought to create a bloc of Asian nations ruled by Japan, ostensibly free from Western imperialism due to being controlled by the Japanese colonial empire. [1]
Japanese propaganda poster “Heaven and Hell”, demonising China under the Nationalist Government. Japanese propaganda during the World War II presented the war a defensive against the influence and the hostility of the West. [24] It conveyed the Japanese as victims who would have to fight for their independence and freedom. [25]
Don't Let that Shadow Touch Them is a U.S. War Bond poster created by Lawrence Beall Smith in 1942, [1] created in support of the U.S. war effort upon America's entry into World War II. [2] It features three young children, apprehensive and fearful, as they are enveloped by the large, dark arm of a swastika shadow. [ 3 ]
The name of the bonds was eventually changed to War Bonds after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, which resulted in the United States entering the war. The War Finance Committee was placed in charge of supervising the sale of all bonds, and the War Advertising Council promoted voluntary compliance with bond buying.
Know Your Enemy: Japan is an American World War II propaganda film about the war in the Pacific directed by Frank Capra, with additional direction by experimental documentary filmmaker Joris Ivens. The film, which was commissioned by the U.S. War Department , sought to educate American soldiers about Japan, its people, society and history, and ...
Official war artists have been appointed by governments for information or propaganda purposes and to record events on the battlefield; [3] but there are many other types of artists depicting the subject or events of war. Between 1937 and 1945, Japan’s military leaders commissioned official war artists to create images of the Second Sino ...