The Thought War: Japanese Imperial Propaganda

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237 Abbott, Bud, 105–106 Ajia, 44, 68. See also dangan ressha; Ministry of Railroads Akita Minoru, 92. See also Hanabishi Achako; rakugo; Yokoyama Entatsu Akiyama Kunio, 54–56; news article, 55 American: arrival in Japan, 176; difficulty with anti-Japanese attitudes, 148–149; occupation policies of Japan, 174, 177–181; propaganda dilemma in postwar Japan, 180–181; scientific prowess, 173; thinking and Japanese criticism of, 172–173; treatment of Japanese POWs, 148–153; treatment of Japanese soldiers, 149–150; use of Japanese POWs in propaganda, 152–154 Amö Eiji, 39 anti-Semitism, 87, 109 Arai Seiichirö, 69–73, 76 Arai Zentarö, 25 Arisue Seizö, 56, 189–190. See also Bunka Camp Ariyoshi, Koji, 143, 150, 151, 152. See also Propaganda: American Atami (wartime resort), 40 Azabu Shin, 101 Ba Jin, 36 Ba Maw, 13 Behind the News in China, 41 benitai (Chinese plain-clothes spies), 104. See also Misu Wakana; Tamamatsu Ichirö; Warawashitai Black Americans, 40, 119 Black Dragon Society, 13–14 Bose, Chandra, 13 Buck, Pearl, 146 Buck Privates (film), 105–106 Bungei Shunjü (magazine), 47, 80; Bungei Shunjü company, 62; 1940 domestic poll, 19. See also contests; Kikuchi Kan Bunka Camp, 56–57, 66. See also POWs; propaganda bunka shisetsu (cultural ambassadors), 112 Cabinet Board of Information Bureau, 26–27, 164, 178, 181, 184; rumor campaigns, 165 Chiang Kai Shek, 27, 35, 99, 137, 141, 144; mocking of, 103 China Incident (1937), 38, 92, 96; Chinese response to, 58 Chinese Communist Party (CCP), 117–118; mocking of, 103; POW policy, 128, 149–151; POW treatment by Japanese, 131 chönaikai, 30 Christians, 168 CIE (Civil Information and Education) Department, 177–178, 180, 182 comedy: on albums, 95–96, 101, 111–112; lowbrow, 104–105; mocking America, 109–111; Russian, 87–88. See also Warawashitai comfort women (ianfu), 64, 205n22 “Comparing Japanese and American Mothers” (comedy skit), 111. See also comedy; kessen; manzai contests: drama, 31; poster, 35; song, 30–31 Costello, Lou, 105–106 Daihonei (Imperial General Headquarters ), 65, 82–83, 160; hödöbu, 32 daisan kokujin, 61 Index 238 / Index dangan ressha, 45–46, 198n94; in 1964, 49 Davies, John P., 150. See also Ariyoshi, Koji; Dixie Mission; Emmerson, John; propaganda: Chinese Communist Party (CCP); Yoneda, Karl Dixie Mission, 150–154 Doihara Kenji, 13 Dömei, 27, 176 Dower, John, 156 Eastern Way Company (Töhö), 73–76 Ellul, Jacque, 25, 33 Emmerson, John, 150–152. See also propaganda : American; Yoneda, Karl Entan Enosuke, 49 Fairbank, John, 151 Fellers, Bonner, 136, 149 FRONT, 74–75, 79, 84 Fujiwara Iwaichi, 189. See also Mabuchi Itsuo Furukawa Roppa, 48–49 ganbaru, 50 Goebbels, Joseph, 6, 36 Gonda Yasunosuke, 94, 97–98 Guo Moruo, 138, 142–144, 146. See also Hasegawa Teru; Kaji Wataru; propaganda : CCP; propaganda: KMT Great Manzai Routines for the Decisive Battle, 111. See also kessen; manzai; Warawashitai Hagi Shügetsu, 107 haisen (defeat), 157–158 Hanabishi Achako, 92–93, 96, 98, 104–105. See also manzai; Warawashitai Hanazono Aiko, 106–107, 112. See also manzai; Warawashitai Hangzhou (China), 79–80 Hasegawa Teru, 144–146; news article on, 145. See also Guo Moruo; Kaji Wataru; propaganda: KMT Hasegawa Nyozekan, 23 Hattori Takushirö, 180 heitai, images of, 79 Heitai rakugo (comedian soldier), 88–91, 93. See also Yanagiya Kingorö Higashikuni Naruhiko, 176, 179 Hino Ashihei, 79, 202n27 Hirota Köki, 48 hödöbu, 82 Honpö Temple, 108. See also rakugo Hösö, article on humor, 106 Ie no hikari (Homelight), 31 Ikeda Norizane, 56–57. See also Bunka Camp; POWs; propaganda Imaizumi Takeji, 69–73 imon butai, 92, 114 “The Imperial Army’s Great Victory”: comedy skit, 101–104 International Tourism, 34, 37 Ishida Ichimatsu, 98–100. See also Warawashitai Ishihara Hiroichirö, 186–187 Itaria (magazine): roundtable of entertainment , 108 Iwasaki Harushige, 83 Ivens, Joris, 146 Jikyoku Iinkai (Committee for the Current State of Affairs), 41–42 JTB (Japan Tourist Board), 39. See also Ajia; dangan ressha Kagawa Takashi, 134, 150–151 Kaigun banbanzai, 94 Kaji Wataru, 141–144, 146 kamishibai, 97 Kanda Köichi, 9 Kaneko Fumiko, 58 Kantö earthquake, 22; treatment of Koreans, 57–58 Kanzö sensei (movie), 54 Katsura Kingo, 106–107. See also Hanazono Aiko Kawabe Torashirö, 189–190 Kawaisö Incident, 54–56. See also POWs Kawayanagi Senryü, 1–3, 21, 30 Kaye, Danny, 90–91 Index / 239 kenpeitai, 95 kessen: and entertainment, 113; manzai, 111; and Special Higher Police, 160–163 Kikakuin (Cabinet Planning Agency), 33...