In Japan, like in most other countries, propaganda has been a significant phenomenon during the 20th century.[1]
Propaganda activities in Japan have been discussed as far back as the Russo-Japanese War of the first decade of the 20th century.[2] Propaganda activities peaked during the period of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.[3][4] Scholar Koyama Eizo has been credited with developing much of the Japanese propaganda framework during that time.[4][3]
Post-war, some activities of the democratic Japanese government have also been discussed as a form of propaganda, for example the cases of cooperation between anime producers and the Japan Self-Defense Force.[5]
- ^ The Asahi Shimbun Company (26 February 2015). Media, Propaganda and Politics in 20th-Century Japan. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. x–xi. ISBN 978-1-4725-1226-0.
- ^ Travis, Frederick F. (1981). "The Kennan-Russel Anti-Tsarist Propaganda Campaign among Russian Prisoners of War in Japan, 1904-1905". The Russian Review. 40 (3): 263–277. doi:10.2307/129375. ISSN 0036-0341. JSTOR 129375.
- ^ a b Fabian Schäfer (11 May 2012). Public Opinion – Propaganda – Ideology: Theories on the Press and Its Social Function in Interwar Japan, 1918-1937. BRILL. p. 86. ISBN 978-90-04-22913-6.
- ^ a b Barak Kushner (2006). The Thought War: Japanese Imperial Propaganda. University of Hawaii Press. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-8248-2920-9.
- ^ Yamamura, Takayoshi (2019-01-02). "Cooperation Between Anime Producers and the Japan Self-Defense Force: Creating Fantasy and/or Propaganda?". Journal of War & Culture Studies. 12 (1): 8–23. doi:10.1080/17526272.2017.1396077. hdl:2115/74922. ISSN 1752-6272. S2CID 165803736.