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In 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 the 1930s,
the South Manchuria Railway Company, the America-Japan 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 English-language propaganda sources
from the 1920s and 1930s, this book will be of huge interest to
historians of Japan, China, the US and World War II more broadly.
In 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 the 1930s,
the South Manchuria Railway Company, the America-Japan 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 English-language propaganda sources
from the 1920s and 1930s, this book will be of huge interest to
historians of Japan, China, the US and World War II more broadly.
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