Djawa Baroe cover no. 23, "Tari meroentoehkan Amerika dan Inggeris" (A dance to bring down America and England), 1 December 1943
Magazine cover photograph of a young dancer in Javanese court costume and headdress drawing a bow, a Japanese rising-sun flag on a staff beside her, under a cover line naming the pose a dance to bring down America and England. The tell is the borrowing: a traditional Javanese dance form and costume are put to the occupier's war message.
- Date
- December 1, 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Djawa Baroe, illustrated magazine of the Japanese military administration in Java (photographer not credited)
- Region
- Southeast Asia
- Country
- Empire of Japan
- Medium
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Showa Japan
- Leader
- Hideki Tojo
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Leader
- Hideki Tōjō
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (scan of Djawa Baroe, Vol. 1, Iss. 23), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (Commons: Indonesia 1943 photograph pre-URAA, and PD-Japan 50-year term)
Djawa Baroe, Vol. 1, Iss. 23 (1 December 1943), cover; via Wikimedia Commons
Text on the object
TARI MEROENTOEHKAN AMERIKA DAN INGGERIS ベィエイ ゲキメツ オドリ 20 sen 23 2603.12.1.
Dance to bring down America and England [Japanese line: dance of annihilating America and Britain; katakana reading uncertain] 20 sen No. 23 1 December 2603 (Japanese imperial year, 1943)
Read from the 960 px image. The katakana line is small and degraded; some characters and the dakuten are reconstructed from sense. Translation machine-made, not checked by a fluent reader.
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