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title: Japanese Relocation (Office of War Information film), opening text card
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japanese-relocation-owi-film-title-card-1943/
description: 'Opening card of a 1943 U.S. government film: ''Following the outbreak of the present war, it became necessary to transfer several thousand Japanese…'
section: Collection
---

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[![Japanese Relocation (Office of War Information film), opening text card](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/japanese-relocation-owi-film-title-card-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/japanese-relocation-owi-film-title-card-1943.jpg)

# Japanese Relocation (Office of War Information film), opening text card

Opening card of a 1943 U.S. government film: 'Following the outbreak of the present war, it became necessary to transfer several thousand Japanese residents from the Pacific Coast to points in the American Interior', laid over the faded film title 'Japanese Relocation' and 'Office of War Information, Bureau of Motion Pictures'. 'Transfer' and 'relocation' stand where the film's subject, forced removal and confinement, would be named (euphemism).

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
FOLLOWING THE OUTBREAK
OF THE PRESENT WAR, IT BECAME
NECESSARY TO TRANSFER SEVERAL
THOUSAND JAPANESE RESIDENTS
FROM THE PACIFIC COAST TO
POINTS IN THE AMERICAN INTERIOR.

[faded background title, partly legible:] JAPANESE RELOCATION
[faded background credit:] Office of War Information, Bureau of Motion Pictures
```

Capitalisation normalised for the display lettering, which sets the first letter large; the faded background title and credit are partly obscured by the text card.

[← 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/) [Jappy So-o-o Happy When This Happens to You (Navy Department Safety Poster) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jappy-so-o-o-happy-navy-safety-poster-1943/)

## Using the same techniques

- [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.
- [Deutsche Zeitung, "Ein angeblicher Militärputsch" (An alleged military putsch), morning edition, 13 March 1920](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/deutsche-zeitung-angeblicher-militaerputsch-1920/) (Weimar Germany · Mar 13, 1920 · Euphemism / doublespeak). Content note: Front page carrying a column headed 'Sozialdemokratie und Judentum' (Social Democracy and Jewry) beside the lead on the Kapp putsch.
- ["Sous le soleil équatorial" (Le Petit Journal illustré, 6 July 1924)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/petit-journal-congo-ocean-railway-1924/) (France · Jul 6, 1924 · Euphemism / doublespeak, Glittering generalities)
- [Human Sterilization Today](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/human-sterilization-today-1938/) (United States · 1938 · Euphemism / doublespeak, Glittering generalities, Transfer). Content note: Pro-sterilisation pamphlet using "insane and feebleminded" for patients, with a disparaging remark about Catholics.
- ['Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry' (exclusion order posted in San Francisco)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/exclusion-order-japanese-ancestry-1942/) (United States · Apr 11, 1942 · Euphemism / doublespeak)
- [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)
- [Attention American Soldiers! I Cease Resistance (surrender pass, leaflet 17-J-1)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/i-cease-resistance-leaflet-1945/) (United States · 1945 · Euphemism / doublespeak, Testimonial)
- ['Politiele actie in Indonesie hervat' (Polygoon newsreel, chalkboard bulletin)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/politionele-actie-in-indonesie-hervat-1948/) (Netherlands · Dec 1948 · Euphemism / doublespeak). Content note: Period Dutch government wording ('police action') for a colonial military offensive in Indonesia; the bulletin's stated reason is quoted as chalked.