Page 'Pemoeda: Asia Timoer Raja' aimed at Indonesian youth, Djawa Baroe, Java (1 March 1943)
Black-and-white halftone page: the headline 'PEMOEDA' (youth) in white block letters on black, over a dense photograph of uniformed young men in peaked caps seen from above, crossed by a tilted banner 'ASIA TIMOER RAJA'. A bottom line tells the reader that the coming era, besides being for him, is also his responsibility. The tell of glittering generalities is the pairing of a bare virtue-phrase, the Greater East Asia banner and 'the future', with a duty, and no stated programme.
- Date
- March 1, 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Japanese military administration of Java (Gunseikanbu), Propaganda Department (Sendenbu), in the magazine Djawa Baroe; artist not recorded
- Region
- East Asia
- Country
- Empire of Japan
- Medium
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Showa Japan
- Leader
- Hideki Tojo
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Glittering generalities
- Leader
- Hideki Tōjō
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (scan of Djawa Baroe magazine), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (Commons PD-Japan, PD-1996; anonymous 1943 magazine page)
Djawa Baroe (Sendenbu, Jakarta), March 1, 1943; scan via Wikimedia Commons. Anonymous Japanese work, out of copyright in Japan by 1 Jan 1996, so not URAA-restored.
Text on the object
PEMOEDA ASIA TIMOER RAJA MASA JANG DATANG SELAIN OENTOEK MOE, DJOEGA TANGGOENGANMOE !!
YOUTH GREAT EAST ASIA The coming era, besides being for you, is also your responsibility!!
Read from a 500 px rendering of a 785 by 1045 px scan. 'Moe' is the old spelling of 'mu' (your). 'Raja' is printed as shown (standard 'Raya'). Translation is a literal machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.
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