This country is at war with Germany.

We shall go on to the end.

I remember the sheets of flame which came up and almost blinded us from our guns. Hello and welcome to the World War II podcast I'm Angus Wallace.

In this episode we're going to look at Japanese propaganda during the Imperial era

with the rise of mass production of newspapers and magazine amidst the Russian Japanese War,

the Japanese population became instilled in nationalism and militarism.

Despite the era of demilitarization and demotion, nationalism and militarization

democratization after the First World War the Japanese Empire once again

became fixated on expansion in harness film, radio and cultural institutions, the country was galvanized for total war.

I'm joined by Ray Maximoto, author of Echoes of Empire, the power of Japanese propaganda.

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So at rate, we're going to be focusing on Japanese government

propaganda to try and understand how

the government motivated the Japanese people to go to war and fight for Japan.

I wonder if our starting point is to try and understand how Japan traditionally saw itself in the early part of the 20th century?

It begins, I think, to change more so in the late 19th century.

So in the late 19th century. So in the late 19th century,

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