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The use of propaganda in World War II was extensive and far reaching but possibly the most effective form used by the Japanese government was film. [3] Japanese films were produced for a far wider range of audiences than American films of the same period. [ 4 ]
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.
Propaganda for Japanese-American internment is a form of propaganda created between 1941 and 1944 within the United States that focused on the relocation of Japanese Americans from the West Coast to internment camps during World War II. Several types of media were used to reach the American people such as motion pictures and newspaper articles ...
On 8 December, 1941, Japan attacked multiple American and British positions in the Pacific. The Pacific War, a major theater of World War II, further intensified Japan's engagements, leading to significant confrontations with Allied forces in the Pacific Ocean and Southeast Asia.
Eventually 33,000 Japanese American men and many Japanese American women served in the U.S. military during World War II, of which 20,000 served in the U.S. Army. [178] [179] The 100th/442nd Regimental Combat Team, which was composed primarily of Japanese Americans, served with uncommon distinction in the European Theatre of World War II.
As a result, the propaganda kimono designs took on an increasing militaristic air. [7] Wartime animated characters, such as Norakuro, were also frequently appeared in war propaganda kimono textiles. [13] Only since the late 20th-century have scholars in Japan, Europe and the United States begun to seriously study Japanese propaganda kimono. [14]
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. [3] [4] Scholar Koyama Eizo has been credited with developing much of the Japanese propaganda framework during that ...
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]