Fanning the Flames
Propaganda in Modern Japan
Published on 1. June 2021
189 pages
978-0-8179-2468-3 (ISBN)
Description
Japan's Meiji Restoration brought swift changes through Japanese adoption of Western-style modernization and imperial expansion. Fanning the Flames brings together a range of scholarly essays and collected materials from the Hoover Institution Library & Archives detailing how Japanese propaganda played an active role in fostering national identity and mobilizing grassroots participation in the country's transformation and wartime activities, starting with the First Sino-Japanese War to the end of World War II.
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Content
- Front Cover
- Advance Praise
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword-Eric Wakin
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction-Kaoru Ueda
- Part I: Essays
- 1 | Picturing Empire: Nishiki-e and the Wars of Imperial Japan-Olivia Morello and Michael R. Auslin
- 2 | Anchors of History: The Long Shadow of Imperial Japanese Propaganda-Barak Kushner
- 3 | Multinational Perspectives of Visualized Journalism on the Sino-Japanese War : A Comparative Study of Meiji Japan, Qing China, and Europe-Toshihiko Kishi
- 4 | Nishiki-e and War Prints-Junichi Okubo
- 5 | A Visual Revolution: The Emperor in Popular Nishiki-e-Alice Y. Tseng
- 6 | Visual Media Trends during the Russo-Japanese War Period: A Comparative Study of Meiji Japan and Czarist Russia-Toshihiko Kishi
- 7 | Bakudan san'yushi: The Three Heroes of Shanghai-Hanae Kurihara Kramer and Scott Kramer
- 8 | The Pacific War and Kamishibai-Tsuneo Yasuda
- 9 | Printed Wartime Kamishibai-Taketoshi Yamamoto
- Part II: Collection Highlights
- Women at War
- Bushido: Samurai Values
- Iconic Symbols
- War Horses
- Technology
- International Propaganda War
- Further Readings
- Glossary
- Appendix: Geographical Locations
- About the Contributors
- Index
