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title: Empire of Japan propaganda in the collection
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description: Browse all 72 items from Empire of Japan in the FRAME collection, listed by date, each with its techniques, issuer, date and source.
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# Empire of Japan propaganda in the collection

72 objects, listed by date.

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- [Illustration of the Issuing of the State Constitution in the State Chamber of the New Imperial Palace (憲法發布式之圖)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/constitution-promulgation-adachi-ginko-1889/) (Empire of Japan · Mar 14, 1889 · Transfer)
- [The Great Battle of Ansong Ford: The Valor of Captain Matsuzaki](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ansong-ford-toshikata-1894/) (Empire of Japan · 1894 · Glittering generalities)
- [Kanpō (Official Gazette), extra no. 3328, p. 8 (Tokyo, 2 August 1894): 宣戦ノ詔勅 (Imperial Rescript declaring war on China)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kanpo-declaration-of-war-on-china-1894/) (Empire of Japan · Aug 2, 1894 · Glittering generalities, Scapegoating). Content note: Official wartime declaration assigning blame for the war to the Qing government; no imagery.
- [日清戰爭笑樂画會 (Comics of the Sino-Japanese War): 黄海のきづ and 尻へ帆 (Wounds of the Yellow Sea; Sails on the Rear)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/shoraku-gakai-yellow-sea-kiyochika-1895/) (Empire of Japan · May 1895 · Name-calling). Content note: Japanese caricature of Chinese sailors with exaggerated features, beside a shattered warship with a limp body.
- [1904 Meiji Japan Navy: Seventy-Seven Brave Soldiers Decide to Die](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/port-arthur-blockships-1904/) (Empire of Japan · 1904 · Glittering generalities)
- ["Yamato-damashii no gochisō" (Nihon banzai hyakusen hyakushō print, 1904)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/banzai-hyakusen-yamato-damashii-feast-1904/) (Empire of Japan · Sep 20, 1904 · Glittering generalities)
- [民報 Min Bao, no. 1, article (Tokyo, 26 November 1905): plate of the Yellow Emperor](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/minbao-no1-huangdi-plate-1905/) (Empire of Japan · Nov 26, 1905 · Transfer). Content note: Nationalist portrait caption naming the Yellow Emperor as ancestor of the Chinese nation.
- [Kanpō (Official Gazette), no. 7592, front page (Tokyo, 14 October 1908): 戊申詔書 (Boshin Rescript)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kanpo-boshin-rescript-1908/) (Empire of Japan · Oct 14, 1908 · Glittering generalities, Transfer). Content note: Imperial exhortation text; no offensive content expected.
- [詔書 (Imperial Rescript on the Annexation of Korea), Korean translation, Official Gazette of the Government-General of Korea no. 1, p. 17](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/annexation-rescript-korea-gazette-1910/) (Empire of Japan · Aug 29, 1910 · Glittering generalities, Euphemism / doublespeak). Content note: Official Japanese imperial text on the 1910 annexation of Korea, printed in Korean translation; shown as issued.
- [The Perpetrators of the War, in Japan to Her Allies (Tokyo)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japan-to-her-allies-perpetrators-of-the-war-1917/) (Empire of Japan · 1917 · Name-calling, Card stacking)
- [官報 Kanpo (Official Gazette), extra, article '浦潮派兵ノ宣言' (Tokyo, 2 August 1918)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/siberian-intervention-declaration-kanpo-1918/) (Empire of Japan · Aug 2, 1918 · Card stacking). Content note: Official wartime declaration justifying an overseas military intervention; characterises German and Austrian prisoners of war as persecutors; no graphic imagery.
- [Title card from a captured Japanese newsreel: the Emperor commends the Xuzhou campaign (May 1938)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/xuzhou-imperial-commendation-newsreel-card-1938/) (Empire of Japan · May 1938 · Testimonial)
- [銃後の總親和 第二回總選挙 (Total Harmony on the Home Front: Second General Election), Taiwan](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jugo-no-soshinwa-taiwan-election-1939/) (Empire of Japan · Oct 1939 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)
- [Imperial Rule Assistance Association poster, "Let's celebrate, energetically and cheerfully!" (Japan, 1940)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/irraa-lets-celebrate-energetically-cheerfully-poster-1940/) (Empire of Japan · 1940 · Bandwagon, Glittering generalities)
- [秘密戰ヲ防ゲ (Guard Against Secret Warfare), Japanese home-front counterintelligence poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japan-counterintelligence-poster-1940/) (Empire of Japan · 1940 · Fear appeal, Name-calling)
- [Street slogan "Stop the permanent wave" (Japan, 1940)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japan-stop-the-permanent-wave-poster-1940/) (Empire of Japan · 1940 · Bandwagon)
- [Poster, three girls revitalizing Asia (Japan, 1940)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japan-three-girls-revitalizing-asia-poster-1940/) (Empire of Japan · 1940 · Glittering generalities, Transfer)
- [10 sen stamp for the 2600th year of the imperial era, inscribed 八紘一宇 (Hakkō ichiu) (1940)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kigen-2600-hakko-ichiu-10-sen-stamp-1940/) (Empire of Japan · 1940 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)
- ['Zeitaku wa teki da!' (Luxury Is the Enemy!) street sign, Tokyo](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/luxury-is-the-enemy-sign-1940/) (Empire of Japan · Aug 1, 1940 · Semantic hijacking, Identity fusion)
- ['Let's hold the neighbourhood-association meeting': tonarigumi page, Shashin Shūhō No. 141](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tonarigumi-joukai-shashin-shuho-141-1940/) (Empire of Japan · Nov 6, 1940 · Plain folks, Transfer)
- ['Daitōa sensō ni kachinukō!!' (Let's win the Greater East Asia War!) fuel-saving poster, Aichi](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lets-win-greater-east-asia-war-poster-1940s/) (Empire of Japan · 1941 · Transfer)
- ['Stop useless resistance' (Japanese leaflet to the Hong Kong garrison)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/stop-useless-resistance-hong-kong-leaflet-1941/) (Empire of Japan · 1941 · Fear appeal)
- [Axis battledores (hagoita) and 'Axis young ladies': cover of Shashin Shūhō No. 151, Japan](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/axis-hagoita-shashin-shuho-1941/) (Empire of Japan · Jan 15, 1941 · Transfer)
- [中日基本條約簽訂一週年來矣！ (The Sino-Japanese Basic Treaty's first anniversary has come!), four-panel leaflet for Hankou](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hankou-basic-treaty-anniversary-leaflet-1941/) (Empire of Japan · Nov 1941 · Glittering generalities, Fear appeal)
- [Painted wall sign with Jawi inscription and Japanese soldier, Kuching, Sarawak (photographed 14 September 1945)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japanese-sign-kuching-sarawak-1941/) (Empire of Japan · Dec 1941 · Transfer)
- ['Toki no tatefuda' (Notice Board of the Times), Shashin Shūhō No. 200, page 2 (24 December 1941)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/toki-no-tatefuda-shashin-shuho-200-1941/) (Empire of Japan · Dec 24, 1941 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)
- [Frame from a Japanese newsreel of Wang Jingwei's New Year address, "Sekai no reimei" (Dawn of the Century)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/wang-jingwei-new-year-address-nippon-news-1941/) (Empire of Japan · Dec 30, 1941 · Testimonial)
- [Belajarlah! Pakailah! Bahasa Nippon! (Learn! Use! The Japanese Language!)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/belajarlah-pakailah-bahasa-nippon-1942/) (Empire of Japan · 1942 · Bandwagon)
- ['BUT if you continue to resist...' (Japanese leaflet to Australian troops)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/but-leaflet-australian-troops-1942/) (Empire of Japan · 1942 · Fear appeal, False dilemma). Content note: Japanese leaflet showing a dead, dismembered soldier, with a sexual appeal in its text.
- [Daitoa News (Nippon Eigasha newsreel), title card "American War Losses"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/daitoa-news-american-war-losses-1942/) (Empire of Japan · 1942 · Card stacking)
- [Nippon Eigasha Djawa newsreel "Japan conquers South-East Asia", date card "15 FEBRUARI 2602"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japan-verovert-zuidoost-azie-singapore-1942/) (Empire of Japan · 1942 · Card stacking)
- [Japanese leaflet in English, "Australia Screams" (Pacific, c. 1942)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japanese-leaflet-australia-screams-1942/) (Empire of Japan · 1942 · Scapegoating, Appeal to emotion). Content note: Japanese wartime leaflet for Australian troops with a suggestive scene and a sexual-rivalry caricature, shown as issued.
- [Japanese leaflet in English, "Don't wait to die" (Philippines, 1942)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japanese-leaflet-dont-wait-to-die-philippines-1942/) (Empire of Japan · 1942 · Fear appeal)
- [Japanese leaflet in English, "We were the happiest of couples" (Pacific, c. 1942)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japanese-leaflet-happiest-of-couples-1942/) (Empire of Japan · 1942 · Appeal to emotion). Content note: Japanese wartime leaflet with a suggestive scene and a skull-faced soldier, shown as issued.
- [Japanese leaflet in English, "What Are You Fighting For?" (Philippines, 1942)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japanese-leaflet-philippines-battle-1942-2/) (Empire of Japan · 1942 · Appeal to emotion)
- [Japanese leaflet in English, "What's the use of thinking of those ugly-looking cripples" (Pacific, c. 1942)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japanese-leaflet-wounded-soldiers-sweetheart-1942/) (Empire of Japan · 1942 · Appeal to emotion, Loaded language). Content note: Japanese wartime leaflet for Allied troops using the wording 'ugly-looking cripples' and a suggestive scene, shown as issued.
- ['Daitōa kizuku chikara da, kono ippyō' (This one vote is the power that builds Greater East Asia) election poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/this-ballot-greater-east-asia-election-poster-1942/) (Empire of Japan · 1942 · Transfer)
- [Japanese semi-postal stamps overprinted "Singapore fell", 2 sen + 1 sen and 4 sen + 2 sen (February 1942)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japan-fall-of-singapore-semipostal-stamps-1942/) (Empire of Japan · Feb 1942 · Transfer)
- [Still from "Chabar Dai Toa" no. 31, Japanese newsreel with Indonesian-language title cards for occupied Java (1942)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chabar-dai-toa-newsreel-31-title-card-1942/) (Empire of Japan · Feb 19, 1942 · Glittering generalities, Transfer)
- [Crosses in the Wake of Allied Blockade, Japan Times & Advertiser cartoon](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/coral-sea-crosses-japan-times-1942/) (Empire of Japan · May 13, 1942 · Card stacking)
- ['Bullets and cannon too, from savings': munitions price spread, Shashin Shūhō No. 225](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/savings-munitions-prices-shashin-shuho-225-1942/) (Empire of Japan · Jun 17, 1942 · Transfer)
- [15 sen definitive stamp showing a saluting boy aircraftsman (1942)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/boy-aircraftsman-15-sen-stamp-1942/) (Empire of Japan · Oct 1, 1942 · Transfer)
- [10 sen stamp with a map of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere (1942)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/greater-east-asia-map-10-sen-stamp-1942/) (Empire of Japan · Dec 1, 1942 · Transfer)
- [Stamps for the first anniversary of the Greater East Asia War, 2+1 sen and 5+2 sen (1942)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/greater-east-asia-war-anniversary-stamps-1942/) (Empire of Japan · Dec 8, 1942 · Transfer)
- [Poster for the film Eternity (Wan shi liu fang), China and Manchukuo Film Association (1943)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eternity-wanshi-liufang-film-poster-1943/) (Empire of Japan · 1943 · Bandwagon, Glittering generalities)
- [Japanese children's booklet map of the Greater East Asia Conference (Japan, 1943)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japan-greater-east-asia-conference-booklet-map-1943/) (Empire of Japan · 1943 · Glittering generalities, Card stacking). Content note: Japanese wartime booklet map with caricatured American and British figures, shown as published.
- [Matchbox label, Japanese wartime propaganda in Malay: "Tentoe dapat kemenangan" (Victory will surely be won), No. 3 (c. 1943)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japanese-java-propaganda-matchbox-1943/) (Empire of Japan · 1943 · Name-calling)
- [Japanese leaflet for India in Hindi and Bengali: Allied leaders pull an Indian (1943)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japanese-leaflet-india-tug-of-war-1943/) (Empire of Japan · 1943 · Bandwagon, Name-calling)
- [Sedari Menanam Hingga Memetik (From Planting to Harvest)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sedari-menanam-hingga-memetik-1943/) (Empire of Japan · 1943 · Plain folks)
- [Nippon Eigasha newsreel, intertitle on Prime Minister Tojo's visit to Java and the Central Advisory Council](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tojo-java-central-advisory-council-newsreel-1943/) (Empire of Japan · 1943 · Glittering generalities)
- [Page 'Pemoeda: Asia Timoer Raja' aimed at Indonesian youth, Djawa Baroe, Java (1 March 1943)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pemoeda-asia-timoer-raja-djawa-baroe-1943/) (Empire of Japan · Mar 1, 1943 · Glittering generalities)
- ['Dangan kitte' (Bullet Stamps) war-savings lottery advertisement, back cover of Shashin Shūhō](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dangan-kitte-shashin-shuho-1943/) (Empire of Japan · Mar 31, 1943 · Transfer)
- [Poster 'Nippon Mengoeasai Laoetan' (Japan controls the seas), Djawa Baroe, Java (1 June 1943)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nippon-mengoeasai-laoetan-djawa-baroe-1943/) (Empire of Japan · Jun 1, 1943 · Bandwagon)
- [Cartoon of Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek, Djawa Baroe, Java (1 June 1943)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/roosevelt-churchill-chiang-cartoon-djawa-baroe-1943/) (Empire of Japan · Jun 1, 1943 · Name-calling). Content note: Wartime caricature of three named Allied leaders with distorted faces.
- [Cover of the Japanese magazine Manga (漫画), August 1943: caricature of Franklin D. Roosevelt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/manga-magazine-roosevelt-cover-1943/) (Empire of Japan · Aug 1, 1943 · Name-calling)
- ['Students, from today we are the Emperor's shield': student conscription examination, Shashin Shūhō No. 297](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/student-conscription-exam-shashin-shuho-297-1943/) (Empire of Japan · Nov 10, 1943 · Transfer). Content note: Photographs of young men near-naked during a military medical examination.
- [Djawa Baroe cover no. 23, "Tari meroentoehkan Amerika dan Inggeris" (A dance to bring down America and England), 1 December 1943](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/djawa-baroe-dance-bring-down-america-uk-cover-1943/) (Empire of Japan · Dec 1, 1943 · Transfer)
- ['Denryoku wa senryoku!' (Electric Power Is Military Power!) home-front poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/electric-power-is-military-power-poster-1944/) (Empire of Japan · 1944 · Card stacking)
- ['Hey! You diggers! He came, he saw, he conquered!' (Japanese leaflet to Australian troops)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japanese-leaflet-hey-you-diggers-australia-1944/) (Empire of Japan · 1944 · Scapegoating). Content note: Wartime leaflet text referring to sexual violence and using racial terms for Allied troops.
- [Still from "Japanse propaganda tentoonstelling", Japanese military propaganda film shot in Java (c. 1944)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japanese-propaganda-film-exhibition-java-1944/) (Empire of Japan · 1944 · Plain folks)
- [Tokyo Metropolitan poster, "Please cooperate in the evacuation" (Tokyo, 1944)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tokyo-metropolitan-evacuation-poster-1944/) (Empire of Japan · 1944 · Appeal to emotion)
- [Radio Manila Tagalog talk 'look up for American planes' and the 'reorientation' campaign, as monitored by the OSS (1944)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ph-radio-manila-tagalog-americans-planes-oss-digest-1944/) (Empire of Japan · Mar 1944 · Fear appeal)
- [Radio Tokyo and Manila items on guerrilla amnesty and surrender, as monitored by the OSS (1943-44)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ph-radio-tokyo-manila-guerrilla-surrender-oss-digest-1944/) (Empire of Japan · Mar 1944 · Bandwagon, Euphemism / doublespeak)
- [NIPPON magazine, No. 36, cover (Nippon Kobo, Tokyo, September 1944)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nippon-magazine-no-36-cover-1944/) (Empire of Japan · Sep 1944 · Glittering generalities)
- [Cartoon of a horned, skull-necklaced ogre and a Roosevelt-faced figure, Manga (Japan, October 1944)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japan-naming-the-western-barbarians-manga-1944/) (Empire of Japan · Oct 1944 · Dehumanization, Name-calling). Content note: Japanese wartime manga page with a dehumanising demon caricature of Franklin Roosevelt, shown as published.
- ['Beware of the Triple Threat!!!' leaflet for American troops on Mindoro (1944-45)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/beware-triple-threat-mindoro-leaflet-1944/) (Empire of Japan · Dec 1944 · Fear appeal, Plain folks)
- [Nakajima Aircraft silver-donation advertisement, Chubu Nippon Shimbun (Japan, 8 December 1944)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japan-nakajima-silver-mobilization-newspaper-ad-1944/) (Empire of Japan · Dec 8, 1944 · Appeal to emotion, Bandwagon)
- ['American Officers and Men' (Japanese leaflet on the death of President Roosevelt, Okinawa)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japanese-leaflet-roosevelt-death-okinawa-1945/) (Empire of Japan · 1945 · Fear appeal). Content note: Battlefield leaflet exploiting the death of a head of state and threatening suicide attacks.
- ['The Spectre Commands' (Japanese leaflet to Australian troops)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japanese-leaflet-specter-commands-australia-1945/) (Empire of Japan · 1945 · Scapegoating)
- [Radio Tokyo Reports on Iwo, as quoted in a U.S. Army intelligence bulletin](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/radio-tokyo-iwo-casualty-claim-usafpoa-1945/) (Empire of Japan · Apr 6, 1945 · Card stacking)
- [Radio Tokyo Says, 18-21 March 1945 claims, as quoted in a U.S. Army intelligence bulletin](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/radio-tokyo-says-task-force-claim-usafpoa-1945/) (Empire of Japan · Apr 6, 1945 · Card stacking)
- [Still from "Momotarō: Umi no Shinpei" (Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors), Japanese navy-sponsored animated feature](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/momotaro-sacred-sailors-film-still-1945/) (Empire of Japan · Apr 12, 1945 · Transfer)