Certain victory : images of World War II in the Japanese media

550 Pages·2008·39.503 MB·English

by  Earhart, David C

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CERTAIN
VICTORY

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CERTAIN
VICTORY
Images of World War II
in the Japanese Media
David C. Earhart
An East Gate Book
M
.E.Sharpe
Armonk, New York
London, England
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An East Gate Book
Copyright © 2008 by M.E. Sharpe, Inc.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form
without written permission from the publisher, M.E. Sharpe, Inc.,
80 Business Park Drive, Armonk, New York 10504.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Earhart, David C., 1963-
Certain victory : images of World War II in the Japanese media / by David C. Earhart.
p. cm. — (Japan in the modern world)
“An East gate book”
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-7656-1776-7 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. World War, 1939-1945—Japan—Press coverage. 2. World War, 1939-1945—Japan—Mass
media and the war. 3. World War, 1939-1945—Japan—Propaganda. I. Title.
D799.J3E37 2007
940.53'52—dc22 2006034584

Printed in the United States of America
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of
American National Standard for Information Sciences
Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials,
ANSI Z 39.48-1984.
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“I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.”
—Lord Byron, Childe Harold (canto IV, line 177)
“Nothing is as good as peace, and nothing so frightening as war.”
—Nagai Kaf÷u, Danch÷otei nichij÷o (Danch÷otei Diary), 20 August 1945
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contents
Map of the Japanese Empire and the Pacific Theater of World War II ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction: A Picture Worth a Thousand Arguments 1
1. Emperor Sh÷owa 11
2. The Great Japanese Empire 37
3. Men of the Imperial Forces 69
4. A People United in Serving the Nation 107
5. Warrior Wives 147
6. Junior Citizens 183
7. “Now the Enemy Is America and Britain!” 215
8. The Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere 261
9. Uchiteshi Yamamu: “Keep Up the Fight”! 309
10. Faces of the Enemy 333
11. Dying Honorably, from Attu to Iwo Jima 375
12. The Kamikazefication of the Home Front 409
Conclusion: Endgame 461
Appendix 1: Annotated Bibliography of Japanese Wartime News Journals 477
Appendix 2: Glossary 489
Bibliography 493
Index 497
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