NIPPON magazine, No. 36, cover (Nippon Kobo, Tokyo, September 1944)
Cover of NIPPON no. 36: yellow ground, red masthead, and a black-and-white photograph of a shirtless young man in a white cap, arm out in a gymnastic salute. English cover lines: 'Greater East Asia Youth's Round-Table Meeting' and 'Builders of the Home Front'. The tell: mass physical drill stands for a regional youth assembly; the cover asserts a unity of peoples that the photograph does not document.
Propaganda techniques used in this newspaper page
- Date
- September 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- NIPPON (Nippon Kobo, Tokyo; photograph by Ken Domon, layout by Yusaku Kamekura)
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
- Media
- Regime
- Showa Japan
- Leader
- Kuniaki Koiso
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Empire and colonialism
- Event
- World War II
- 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, PD-old missing SDC copyright status; 1944 Japanese periodical cover)
NIPPON magazine No. 36 (Nippon Kobo, Tokyo), September 1944; via Wikimedia Commons
Text on the object
Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked
NIPPON GREATER EAST ASIA YOUTH'S ROUND-TABLE MEETING BUILDERS OF THE HOME FRONT 36 日本
Read from a 250 px rendering; the cover lines are small but legible. The Japanese word at the lower left is the title in Japanese (Nippon).
