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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 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]
Although Japan's light industry had secured a share of the world market, Japan returned to debtor-nation status soon after the end of the war. The ease of Japan's victory, the negative impact of the Shōwa recession in 1926, and internal political instabilities helped contribute to the rise of Japanese militarism in the late 1920s to 1930s.
Between 1937 and 1945, Japan’s military leaders commissioned official war artists to create images of the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific War. Approximately 200 pictures depicting Japan’s military campaigns were created. These pictures were presented at large-scale exhibitions during the war years. [2]
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 Metropolitan Museum of Art, [16] The Johann Jacobs Museum [17] (Zurich), the Edward Thorp Gallery [18] in New York City, and the Saint Louis Art Museum [19] have mounted exhibits that have included propaganda kimono. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts received a significant donation of wartime and other omoshirogara kimono from an American ...
The Kempeitai (Japanese: 憲兵隊, Hepburn: Kenpeitai, or Gendarmerie), law soldiers, was the military police of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA). The organization also shared civilian secret police that specialized clandestine and covert operation, counterinsurgency, counterintelligence, HUMINT, interrogate suspects who may be allied soldiers, spies or resistance movement, maintain security ...
Over 33,000 Japanese Americans served in the military during World War II. [9] Upon returning home, Japanese American service members found old prejudices remained. [9] In 1946, one of the 442nd's soldiers, PFC Sadao Munemori, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the regiment's service in Italy.