--- title: '''Students, from today we are the Emperor''s shield'': student conscription examination, Shashin Shūhō No. 297' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/student-conscription-exam-shashin-shuho-297-1943/ description: A picture-weekly spread on the special conscription examination of university and college students in Tokyo. section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) **Content note:** Photographs of young men near-naked during a military medical examination. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was) [!['Students, from today we are the Emperor's shield': student conscription examination, Shashin Shūhō No. 297](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/student-conscription-exam-shashin-shuho-297-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/student-conscription-exam-shashin-shuho-297-1943.jpg) # 'Students, from today we are the Emperor's shield': student conscription examination, Shashin Shūhō No. 297 A picture-weekly spread on the special conscription examination of university and college students in Tokyo. A full-height photo shows a line of shaven-headed, near-naked young men filing past; others show a chest X-ray, a weighing scale and examiners at a table under a rising-sun flag. The headline, 'Students, from today we are the Emperor's shield', borrows an archaic imperial-service phrase and a flag backdrop for a compulsory medical call-up (transfer). ## Text on the object Original (Japanese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` 學徒われも 今日よりは醜の御楯ぞ 學徒の臨時徴兵検査　東京 第七番　徴兵官　陸軍大佐　村上[illegible] [illegible — introductory paragraph at top right, three body-text columns at left, photo captions] 9　3 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` Students, we too, from today are the humble shield (of the Emperor) The students' extraordinary conscription examination, Tokyo No. 7, conscription officer, Army Colonel Murakami [illegible] [illegible] 9 3 ``` Headline and subheading read right to left from the large type; the placard on the small lower-right photograph is partly legible. All running text is in small type and is marked [illegible] rather than guessed. [← Catania, Sicily: reading Allied news under U.S. and British flags, 1943](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/catania-allied-news-display-1943/) ['90% of the world's rubber is in Japanese hands: Save rubber' (Australian Army poster) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/90-percent-of-rubber-in-japanese-hands-australia-1944/) ## Using the same techniques - [Bronze sestertius of Gaius (Caligula), reverse S P Q R P P OB CIVES SERVATOS in an oak wreath](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sestertius-caligula-ob-cives-servatos-0037/) (Roman Empire · 0037 · Testimonial, Transfer) - [Gold coin of Kanishka: King of Kings legend, king at the altar, deity Oesho](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gold-dinar-kanishka-king-of-kings-0130/) (Kushan Empire · 0130 · Transfer) - [Gold solidus of Justinian I, reverse VICTORIA AVGGG with Victory holding a Christogram staff](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/solidus-justinian-i-victoria-avggg-0538/) (Byzantine Empire · 0538 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Bayeux Tapestry, scene 23: UBI HAROLD SACRAMENTVM FECIT VVILLELMO DVCI](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bayeux-tapestry-harold-oath-to-william-1070/) (Kingdom of England · 1070 · Transfer, Card stacking) - [Mughal gold coin of Jahangir, dated 1028 AH, with a bull inside a ring of sun rays](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jahangir-gold-zodiac-coin-sun-rays-1619/) (Mughal Empire · 1619 · Transfer) - [Frontispiece to Eikon Basilike, The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings (Hollar, 1649)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eikon-basilike-frontispiece-hollar-1649/) (Dutch Republic · 1649 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Consult of the doctors on the grave illness of the Grand Sultan (Consult vande medicijnen inde swaere siekte vanden grooten Sultaen)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/consult-of-the-doctors-sick-sultan-antwerp-1683/) (Spanish Netherlands · 1683 · Transfer, Bandwagon) - [The Highlanders Medley, or The Duke Triumphant (A Loyal Song)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/highlanders-medley-duke-triumphant-1746/) (Great Britain · 1746 · Name-calling, Transfer)