Item title: | Rice harvest |
Title (romaji): | Kome no shûkaku |
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Location: | Australian War Memorial (7/9/12 J124) View information about obtaining a copy of this document |
AJRP details | |
AJRP module: | Australian War Memorial leaflets |
AJRP series: | Far Eastern Liaison Office propaganda leaflets |
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Location details | |
Institution: | Australian War Memorial |
Call number: | 7/9/12 J124 |
Inst. series: | Various |
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Item: | J124 |
Item qualities | |
Quantity / desc: | 2 pages, mimeographed copy |
Access: | Open |
Item type: | Unpublished, Official |
Category: | Leaflet |
Item content | |
Creation date (d/m/y): | 20/10/1943 |
Conflict code: | Pacific War (1941-1945) |
Keywords: | PROPAGANDA, LEAFLET DROPPING |
Australian unit names: | |
Allied unit names: | FAR EASTERN LIAISON OFFICE |
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Languages: | English, Japanese |
Area: | Melanesia (PNG, Irian Jaya & Solomon Islands) Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia) |
Content: | This item is a Japanese-language propaganda leaflet produced by the Far Eastern Liaison Office during the Second World War. An English translation of the text is provided. The leaflet carries a photographic image of rice harvesting in Japan. The leafle, which is dated on 24 September 1943, reminds Japanese soldiers of the time of rice harvest in Japan, when even soldiers could take time off to help in the fields. The message states that old folks and even small children toil on rice fields as young men are taken to the war. It stresses that the real duty of Japanese solders should be working on the land inherited from their ancestors rather than fighting a war started arbitrarily by the military clique. The English translation notes that the purpose of the leaflet is to induce nostalgia and to nurture animosity against the Japanese military clique. 100,000 of them were printed. |
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Last modified: | 11/28/2001 04:14:07 PM |
Source: | AJRP staff |
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