FILM: "MY JAPAN!" Think the US government doesn't engage in propaganda?

[Bluebear]

This film, "My Japan" was produced in 1945, exhorting people to buy war bonds. In the process it villifies the Japanese people. From the opening, (with cheesy Asian ching-ching-ching-chong music) in which a caucasian actor is dressed up to be "Japanese" except he 'doesn't have big teeth' and wear "SICK GLASSES", the Japanese are portrayed in a menacing light. the whole flame taunts and inflames the viewer to total war with Japan. ("Rook again! Your bombs cannot destroy Japan!")

You must remember that Americans had witnessed the invasion of Pearl Harbor, the Siege at Nanking and similar events. A horrified nation seeing this film would have little reluctance to the concept of internment camps for anyone of Japanese ancestry. Why, even today the lovely Michelle Malkin (visual aid....)



defends the role of these camps in our history.

9/11 was a similarly traumatizing event for Americans. Lashing out, some Americans killed Muslims (or Indians they thought 'looked' Muslim) in the aftermath. Now, we hear that being liberal is "unAmerican". Liberals, bad. "Heartland values" good. Ann Coulter: Take baseball bats to liberals. Christians can now be gay prostitutes with the party in power's blessing and are forgiven! But they can't marry.

When you read threads about concentration camps being authorized, don't dismiss it right away as "tinfoil" thinking. We have lived through a golden age of relative peace and prosperity, ending in...oh, roughly Summer 2001. Now, 49% of high school students in a durvey believe that newspapers should have "government approval" before publishing anything. ("New generation blase about old freedoms", USA Today 2/15/05 http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-02-15-csm-amendment_x.htm?csp=34

"By all means come to my Japan IF YOU DARE! And welcome, it is beautiful here, as beautiful as the sight of your blood on our bayonets!!!!"

View this film made by the US government and ask yourself if you fit in a category that is being portrayed in the media as "unpatriotic". And keep fighting for freedom.

Streaming QT movie link:

http://www.archive.org/stream/MyJapan1945/MyJapan1945_256kb.mp4

[sakabatou]

1. That isn't a very flattering pic of Michelle Malkin

...eh, she probably looks that way 24/7.

[Bluebear]

2. Her true soul is revealed in the photo.

[Bluebear]

4. Why do people think she is hot?

Ecch.

[Bluebear]

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[Rapcw]

5. That movie was such laughable propaganda

The sad thing is some people this think this movie was truth. Another good example of propaganda from that time is "Our Enemy: The Japanese".

http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?collection=prelinger&collectionid=20457

*edit* spelling

[Bluebear]

6. Propaganda to us now, maybe

But it can (is happening?) occur again!

[Rapcw]

7. well of course

just look at Fox News and you will find the answer

[Bluebear]

8. I love one of the 'reviews' of the film you cite

>>>Lib America haters having a field day reviewing these films...
But then again, their relatives didn't have their livers eaten at Fukuoka University after have a vivesection perfomed while still alive....

"Hey the Japanese were great! Just misunderstood by racist White Americans..."

by "Historian's (Freepers put apostrophes to make a plural) For Truth!"

[Rapcw]

9. Yea I know

It is people like that that scare me the most. I don't think anyone said that the Japanese didn't do anything wrong in WW2 either. What an idiot.

[Bluebear]

12. Totally.

And the end of the movie has some warning like "Remember, all the Japanese feel like this"

[Clark2008]

10. Bluebear, did you see my post on another thread about this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3144209&mesg_id=3145432&page=
I took my son to the American Science and Energy Museum today and, let me tell you, Freepers aren't the first Americans to enjoy the fruits of propaganda.
I was cringing at the "war effort" posters I saw on display - from OUR side. I realize that WWII was a valid war - we were attacked by a country and we were trying to save Europe and rectify the deaths of 6 million Jews - however, the propaganda was nauseating, all the same.
I grew up near Oak Ridge (where the museum is located) and still live here today. I've been to the museum as a child and remember the posters, but the blatant propaganda never hit me until I went as an adult living under the Bush Regime.
The efforts of Rosie the Riveter and the WACs and the rations and the donations was valiant and I take nothing away from the ordinary person who suffered through that time; however, the posters seemed to glamorize something that was not, in any way, glamorous.
Millions of people died in WWII, both at the hands of Hitler, and at the hands of my favorite past president, Harry S. Truman, and for very different reasons - valid or not.
But the fact remains that, "War is Hell."
And we're at war for the very soul of the country: Democracy.


So, yeah, after today - I'm fully prepared to agree with you!

[Bluebear]

11. I did NOT see that post!

How timely.

I agree with you, of course. Japan DID attack us. WWII was a heroic war. But the propaganda of villifying a whole race and the tactics involved are eye-opening. And repeating.