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title: 'Know Your Enemy: Japan, text card quoting a Japanese Army press officer on a ''hundred years war'''
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/know-your-enemy-japan-hundred-years-war-card-1945/
description: 'Near the end of the film, a title card in jagged brush-style lettering over a photograph of a packed crowd quotes: ''Japan is firmly determined to fight a…'
section: Collection
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# Know Your Enemy: Japan, text card quoting a Japanese Army press officer on a 'hundred years war'

Near the end of the film, a title card in jagged brush-style lettering over a photograph of a packed crowd quotes: 'Japan is firmly determined to fight a hundred years war to crush the United States', credited to a named Japanese Army Press Section colonel, August 1942. A single enemy statement is staged as proof of unending war (fear-appeal); the card gives no context for the quotation.

## Text on the object

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

```
"JAPAN IS FIRMLY
DETERMINED TO FIGHT
A HUNDRED YEARS WAR
TO CRUSH THE UNITED
STATES."

COLONEL HIDEO OHIRA,
JAPANESE ARMY PRESS SECTION
AUGUST 1942
```

The name on the card was read from a low-resolution frame (the second line of the attribution partly overlaps the crowd photograph); spelling 'OHIRA' is as read and has not been checked against another source.

[← 'The Spectre Commands' (Japanese leaflet to Australian troops)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japanese-leaflet-specter-commands-australia-1945/) [Know Your Enemy: Japan, animated frame of looming uniformed figures above a crouching farmer →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/know-your-enemy-japan-militarists-farmer-animation-1945/)

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