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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.
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 ]
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 ...
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.
In addition to censorship, the occupiers “regularly planted articles, photographs, and other items in the Japanese press,” [50] which included pro-American propaganda highlighting the glamour of American culture. Women's magazines such as Sutairu and Sutairu To Dezain encouraged Japanese women to idolize American beauty standards, arguing ...
Stylized Japanese soldier, meant to appear ape-like Japanese symbolism being overshadowed and defeated by American production. After Japan's Attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States entered World War II. Crucial to the United States propaganda plan was to ensure that this attack was broadcast by any and all means. Japan was the enemy. [1]
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 ...
Nippon Fujin (Japanese: 日本婦人, romanized: Japanese Women) was a Japanese political magazine targeting women. [1] The magazine was one of the best-selling magazines during World War II in Japan. [2] It existed between 1942 and 1945.