Grab Instantly Japans New Deal For China: Propaganda Aimed At Americans Before Pearl Harbor Imagined By June Grasso File Format Copy
the decade leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, at a time when Japan was expanding its influence in Asia, several Japanese institutions set about trying to convince Americans to support Tokyo's plans and ambitions for China.
This book seeks to analyze the original publications produced by these organizations and explores the methods used by the Japanese to influence American attitudes and policy.
Four organizations active during thes, the South Manchuria Railway Company, the AmericaJapan Society, the Foreign Affairs Association of Japan, and the Japan Pacific Association, were particularly instrumental in targeting the US.
This book argues that they routinely used specific terminology to appeal to Americans, such as 'New Deal, ' 'Manifest Destiny, ' and 'Open Door.
' Furthermore, the Japanese claimed that only they could meet the challenge of the growing communist threat, while their development programs would bring peace and prosperity to China.
Nevertheless, American policy was not significantly altered by Japanese propaganda efforts, as documents from the administration of Franklin D, Roosevelt reveal that the president continued to prepare the U, S. for war with Japan long before Pearl Harbour,
Examining original Japanese Englishlanguage propaganda sources from thes ands, this book will be of huge interest to historians of Japan, China, the US and World War II more broadly.
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