Propaganda - Government Documents - History 389 - Research Guides at University of Hawaii at Manoa

American propaganda directed at Japanese soldiers and sailors

Psychological warfare part 1
Explanation of the use of propaganda on Japanese combatants
Psychological warfare part two supplement 2
Examples of psychological warfare leaflets
Psychological warfare in support of military operations; a bibliography of selected materials with annotations
This bibliography prepared by the U.S. Department of State Library covers propaganda during and after World War II.

American propaganda directed at Americans

How Your Words Get to Japan
Pamphlet urging Americans to prevent intelligence from reaching Japan

The Jap Soldier by Arthur Goodfriend
Call Number: Government Docs Closed Shelves ; W 1.2:J 27x
Publication Date: 1943
Wearing Propaganda: textiles on the home front in Japan, Britain, and the United States, 1931-1945 by Jacqueline Atkins Protest fashion from the Vietnam War years is widely familiar, but today few are aware that dramatic fashion and textile designs served as patriotic propaganda for the Japanese, British, and Americans during the Asia-Pacific War (1931-1945). This fabulously illustrated book presents hundreds of examples of how fashion was employed by those on all sides of the conflict to boost morale and fan patriotism. From a kimono lined with images of U.S. planes blowing up to a British scarf emblazoned with hopeful anti-rationing slogans, Wearing Propaganda documents the development of the role of fashion as propaganda first in Japan and soon thereafter in Britain and the United States. The book discusses traditional and contemporary Japanese styles and what they revealed about Japanese domestic attitudes to war, and it shows how these attitudes echoed or contrasted with British and American fashions that were virulently anti-Japanese in some instances, humorously upbeat about wartime deprivations in others. With insights into style and design, fashion history, material culture, and the social history of Japan, the United States, and Britain, this book offers unexpected riches for every reader.
Call Number: Asia Folio D810.P6 W4 2005
ISBN: 9780300109252
Publication Date: 2005-12-15

Japanese propaganda directed to the outside world

Japanese Propaganda
US analyses of Japanese news broadcasts in East Asia.

The Thought War: Japanese Imperial Propaganda by Barak Kushner "A major contribution both to the study of Japan and propaganda in the twentieth century. Barak Kushner meticulously and convincingly reveals the full scope of what was assumed to not have existed; namely an organized, multifaceted, and disturbingly resilient system of Japanese propaganda. Based on an impressive array of primary sources, many only recently uncovered, The Thought War provides a fascinating assessment of the complex and often contradictory processes of Japanese propaganda in an imperial context." --Michael Baskett, professor of film studies, University of Kansas "Barak Kushner has written a first-rate study of propaganda in Japan during the Second World War. In a work of painstaking research, he takes his readers into the heart of wartime Japan, building a compelling argument that Japanese propaganda was sophisticated and effective in rallying the population and, after the war, seamlessly redirecting it to aid the transformation of Imperial Japan into the post-war democracy of today. The Thought War is a superbly competent piece of research that floods light into a place where only generalization, supposition, and stereotype had existed before." --Nicholas J. Cull, University of Southern California, editor, Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia, 1500-present "The Thought War is a unique and remarkable study. Barak Kushner reveals that Japanese propaganda during World War II was astonishingly sophisticated, diverse, and effective. What's more, the methods, messages, and makers of wartime propaganda proved just as successful at shaping public opinion in the wake of Japan's defeat as they earlier had been in mobilizing the nation for war. Kushner's insights on Japan's path from empire, through war, and into postwar reconstruction are provocative, compelling, and thoroughly convincing." --William M. Tsutsui, chair of the Department of Asian Studies, University of Kansas The Thought War is the first book in English to examine the full extent of Japan's wartime propaganda. Based on a wide range of archival material and sources in Japanese, Chinese, and English, it explores the propaganda programs of the Japanese government from 1931 to 1945, demonstrating the true scope of imperial propaganda and its pervasive influence, an influence that is still felt today. Contrary to popular postwar rhetoric, it was not emperor worship or military authoritarianism that led an entire nation to war. Rather, it was the creation of a powerful image of Japan as the leader of modern Asia and the belief that the Japanese could and would guide Asia to a new, glorious period of reform that appealed to imperial subjects. Kushner analyzes the role of the police and military in defining socially acceptable belief and behavior by using their influence to root out malcontents. His research is the first of its kind to treat propaganda as a profession in wartime Japan. He shows that the leadership was not confined to the crude tools of sloganeering and government-sponsored demonstrations but was able instead to appropriate the expertise of the nation's advertising firms to "sell" the image of Japan as Asia's leader and modernizer. In his exploration of the propaganda war in popular culture and the entertainment industry, Kushner discloses how entertainers sought to bolster their careers by adopting as their own pro-war messages that then filtered down into society and took hold. Japanese propaganda frequently conflicted with Chinese and American visions of empire, and Kushner reveals the reactions of these two nations to Japan's efforts and the meaning of their responses.
Call Number: Asia DS888.5 .K895 2006
ISBN: 9780824832087
Publication Date: 2007-04-30
Fanning the flames: propaganda in modern Japan by Kaoru Ueda (Editor) Japan's Meiji Restoration brought swift changes through Japanese adoption of Western-style modernization and imperial expansion. Fanning the Flames brings together a range of scholarly essays and collected materials from the Hoover Institution Library & Archives detailing how Japanese propaganda played an active role in fostering national identity and mobilizing grassroots participation in the country's transformation and wartime activities, starting with the First Sino-Japanese War to the end of World War II.
Call Number: Asia DS881.95 .F36 2021
ISBN: 9780817924645
Publication Date: 2021-06-30

Enemy Japan

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Korea by Troop Information & Education Section, Headquarters XXIV Corps
Call Number: Government Docs Closed Shelves W 109.202:K 84

Government Documents - History 389: Propaganda

American propaganda directed at Japanese soldiers and sailors

American propaganda directed at Americans

Japanese propaganda directed to the outside world

Enemy Japan

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