The US Navy Presents: The Enemy Japan II - The People (1942 Documentary)

DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org In World War II propaganda, American propagandists endeavoured to rouse support for the war and commitment to its victory. Using a wide variety of media, the propaganda fomented hatred for the enemy and support for allies, urged great efforts for production and victory gardens, enjoined people to make do so that more material could go to the war effort, and sold war bonds. Propaganda portrayed the Japanese as a foreign, bizarre, and uncivilized American enemy. Drawing on Japanese samurai traditions, they portrayed them as blindly fanatic and ruthless, with a history of desiring overseas conquests. Japanese propaganda, such as Shinmin no Michi or The Way of the Subjects, called for them to become "one hundred million hearts beating as one" -- a call used to portray them as a mindless unified mass. Atrocities were ascribed to the undifferentiated Japanese people. Even Japanese-Americans could be portrayed as massively supporting Japan, only awaiting the signal to sabotage. Despite racist elements in the propaganda, the atrocities and the fanatical refusal to surrender chiefly determined their portrayal. Even prior to Pearl Harbor, accounts of atrocities in China roused considerable antipathy for Japan. This stemmed from as early as the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, when accounts were made of bombing civilians, or firing upon shell-shocked survivors. Such books as Pearl Buck's The Good Earth and Freda Utley's China At War aroused <b>...</b>
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