Japanese leaflet in English, "What Are You Fighting For?" (Philippines, 1942)
English-language leaflet cartoon headed 'What Are You Fighting For?': a cake-shaped island labelled CORREGIDOR, ringed by barbed wire and holding three tiny soldiers, surrounded by a roast bird, cake, fruit, bottles and a teapot. The tell: besieged men behind wire are set against a table of food and drink, implying plenty on the other side, but no terms are stated and no issuer is named.
Propaganda techniques used in this leaflet
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Empire of Japan (Japanese military psychological-warfare leaflet, Battle of the Philippines; no issuer named on the leaflet)
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Theme, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- East Asia
- Country
- Empire of Japan
- Medium
- Leaflet
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Showa Japan
- Leader
- Hideki Tojo
- Audience
- Enemy forces
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Philippines Campaign 1941 42
- Leader
- Hideki Tōjō
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 11, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (Commons tags PD-Japan-oldphoto, PD-1996; anonymous Japanese wartime leaflet, 1942)
Japanese wartime propaganda leaflet, Battle of the Philippines, 1942; via Wikimedia Commons
Text on the object
Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked
What Are You Fighting For? CORREGIDOR
Only the headline and the label on the island are printed text; the rest is drawing.
