{"id":111895,"date":"2021-02-21T16:38:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T23:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=111895"},"modified":"2021-02-21T16:38:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T23:38:24","slug":"5-examples-of-anti-japanese-propaganda-during-world-war-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/02\/21\/5-examples-of-anti-japanese-propaganda-during-world-war-two\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Examples of Anti-Japanese Propaganda During World War Two"},"content":{"rendered":"

History Hit<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

It is a troubling fact of World War Two\u00a0history that the USA regularly employed\u00a0crude racial stereotypes in the service of ridiculing and demonising their Japanese opponents. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The unannounced strike on Pearl Harbor<\/a> on 7 December 1941 sent a deep shock-wave through America and its people. The country went to war in earnest, roused to avenge those lost in the sneak attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soon after President Franklin D Roosevelt had proclaimed 7 December \u2018a date which will live in infamy\u2019, anti-Japanese paraphernalia and propaganda surfaced across the United States. A notion of Japanese treachery had been planted in the minds of Americans that was open for further careful exploitation and nurturing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsequent anti-Japanese propaganda was used to dehumanise, antagonise, and create fear of the Japanese people and Japanese nation. The discovery of a large Nazi spy ring within the USA heightened paranoid fantasies of a\u00a0treacherous Japanese population that was working with the enemy to undermine the US war effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full Report<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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5 Examples of Anti-Japanese Propaganda During World War Two<\/a><\/blockquote>