Nippon Eigasha Djawa newsreel "Japan conquers South-East Asia", date card "15 FEBRUARI 2602"
Black-and-white frame of a group of men carrying a white flag and a Union Jack along a road, with a white date caption at the foot in Indonesian: '15 FEBRUARI 2602'. The caption uses the Japanese imperial year (2602 equals 1942), so the date of the British surrender at Singapore is given in the Japanese calendar. The film cuts from advance cards ('KE MANILA', 'KE SINGAPOERA') to this scene (card-stacking: a chosen sequence of advances ending on the surrender).
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Nippon Eigasha Djawa (Japanese newsreel company in Java) for the propaganda department of the Japanese military administration
- Region
- East Asia
- Country
- Empire of Japan
- Medium
- Film stills
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Showa Japan
- Leader
- Hideki Tojo
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Card stacking
- Leader
- Hideki Tōjō
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Internet Archive (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision release; item japan-verovert-zuidoost-azie), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (Japanese copyright expired; Public Domain Mark 1.0)
Nippon Eigasha Djawa, 1942; Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, released 2020: 'De (Japanse) auteursrechten zijn vervallen' (nieuws.beeldengeluid.nl/191194). Public Domain Mark 1.0.
Text on the object
15 FEBRUARI 2602
15 February 2602 (Japanese imperial year 2602 = 1942).
Only the date caption of this frame is transcribed; other cards in the film are mentioned in notes.
