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In Japan, like in most other countries, propaganda has been a significant phenomenon during the 20th century. [1] Propaganda activities in Japan have been discussed as far back as the Russo-Japanese War of the first decade of the 20th century. [2] Propaganda activities peaked during the period of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.
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]
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 films (1 C, 8 P) Pages in category "Propaganda in Japan" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
The Greater Japan Patriotic Party, supportive of the US–Japan–South Korea alliance against China and North Korea and against communism as a whole, displays the US national flag flying side by side with the Japanese flag in the vehicles and US military marches played alongside their Japanese counterparts.
Beginning in the Tokugawa period (1600 to 1868), Japan left a prolonged period of civil war and began to prosper as a unified and stable state. [1] This period saw an attempt to remove foreign influences on Japanese culture, including the influence of Chinese culture.
Walter Kaner (May 5, 1920 – June 26, 2005) was a journalist and radio personality who broadcast using the name Tokyo Mose during and after World War II. Kaner broadcast on U.S. Army Radio, at first to offer comic rejoinders to the propaganda broadcasts of Tokyo Rose and then as a parody to entertain U.S. troops abroad.
Among the factors that led to the emergence of propaganda kimono, three stand out: the introduction of modern textile manufacturing and printing equipment into Japan in the late 19th century, [5] the social and political impetus for Japan to modernize, [6] and, following the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, political desire to rally support for colonial expansion. [3]