Japan History: the Asia-Pacific War: HathiTrust

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Types of primary sources

• Biography
• Correspondence
• Speeches
• Diaries
• Letters
• Interviews
• Documentary film recordings
• Statistics, laws and other government documents
• Personal narratives, Description and Travel
• Newspaper reports including photos

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Created by the U.S. War Department

• Medical and sanitary data on Japan
• Japanese Government officials, 1937-1945
• Civil affairs guide: agricultural associations in Japan
• Japanese infantry weapons
• Military intelligence: identification of Japanese naval vessel
• Enemy air-borne forces
• Japanese field artillery
• Handbook on Japanese military forces

Created by the US Office of War Information

• Enemy Japan
• The Japanese are tough
• Psychological warfare. Part two. Supplement
• Japanese Propaganda July-Sept 19, 1945
• Japanese Propaganda May 10-July 11, 1945
• Japanese Propaganda Feb 15-May 9, 1945

Personal Narratives (Accounts)

• Shots fired in anger: a rifleman's eye view of the activities on the island of Guadalcanal, in the Solomons, during the elimination of the Japanese Forces there by the American...
• The lost war, a Japanese reporter's inside story