| Item title: | Control by rumour in the Japanese armed forces |
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| Location: | Australian War Memorial (AWM55 12/95) View information about obtaining a copy of this document |
AJRP details | |
| AJRP module: | Australian War Memorial official records |
| AJRP series: | Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) publications |
| AJRP sub-series: | ATIS research reports |
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Location details | |
| Institution: | Australian War Memorial |
| Call number: | AWM55 12/95 |
| Inst. series: | AWM55 |
| Inst. sub-series: | AWM55 12/- |
| Item: | RR-123 |
Item qualities | |
| Quantity / desc: | 14 pages |
| Access: | Open |
| Item type: | Unpublished, Official |
| Category: | Information report |
Item content | |
| Creation date (d/m/y): | 20/4/1945 |
| Conflict code: | Pacific War (1941-1945) |
| Keywords: | MILITARY POLICE, MILITARY TRAINING, PROPAGANDA, MORALE, PRISONERS, PUNISHMENT |
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| Languages: | English |
| Area: | Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands) Philippines |
| Content: | This is an Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) research report issued on 20 April 1945 on the dissemination of rumours by Japanese military authorities to control troops and boost morale. It contains information on the means by which rumours were spread, examples of officially inspired rumours, propaganda about atrocities and the ill-treatment of prisoners of war, the defects of the Japanese atrocity propaganda method, rumours of aerial reinforcement and counter-attack and rumours of success in other theatres. The report concluded that the authoritarian nature of Japanese society and a lack of security training made soldiers more likely to accept officially-invented rumour and propaganda. For Allied strategists, rumours about reinforcements was an admission of local military weakness and the increasingly desperate measures the Japanese Army was using to maintain flagging morale. |
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| Last modified: | 03/05/2009 09:02:20 AM |
| Source: | AJRP staff |
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