Nakajima Aircraft silver-donation advertisement, Chubu Nippon Shimbun (Japan, 8 December 1944)
Newspaper advertisement by Nakajima Aircraft headed 'Great mobilization of silver' beside a drawing of a fighter plane. It says the key to victory now lies in the decisive air battle, that aircraft need silver, and asks readers to hand silver in at the local office. The tell: a firm's advertisement carries the state's metal-collection drive, tying a household donation to the outcome of the air war, with no quantities or results given.
Propaganda techniques used in this newspaper page
- Date
- December 8, 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Nakajima Aircraft Company (Nakajima Hikoki), advertisement in Chubu Nippon Shimbun
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- East Asia
- Country
- Empire of Japan
- Medium
- Newspaper pages
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Showa Japan
- Leader
- Hideki Tojo
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Economy and finance
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Hideki Tōjō
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 11, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (Commons tags PD-Japan-organization, PD-1996; 1944 Japanese newspaper advertisement)
Chubu Nippon Shimbun, 8 December 1944, Nakajima Aircraft advertisement; via Wikimedia Commons
Text on the object
Original (Japanese) · read from the image, not independently checked
銀の大動員 今や勝敗の鍵は航空決戦に在る 銀こそ飛行機に必要だ 至急市町村役場に供出を願ひます 中島飛行機
Great mobilization of silver Now the key to victory or defeat lies in the decisive air battle Silver is just what aeroplanes need Please deliver it promptly to the city, town or village office Nakajima Aircraft
Read from the 1920 px image. Only these lines were transcribed; the smaller body paragraph and the slogan in the right-hand margin were not. Old-style kana usage kept as printed. Translation is a literal machine translation by Claude, not checked by a fluent reader.
