| Item title: | Hoko - the spy–hostage system of group control - the clue to Japanese psychology |
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| Location: | Australian War Memorial (AWM55 12/98) 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 12/98 |
| Inst. series: | AWM55 |
| Inst. sub-series: | AWM55 12/- |
| Item: | RR-126 part 1 |
Item qualities | |
| Quantity / desc: | 29 pages |
| Access: | Open |
| Item type: | Unpublished, Official |
| Category: | Information report |
Item content | |
| Creation date (d/m/y): | 26/4/1945 |
| Conflict code: | Pacific War (1941-1945) |
| Keywords: | WAR - HOME FRONT, LAW, LAW, ORDER AND DISCIPLINE, RELIGION, POSTWAR RECONSTRUCTION, POLICE |
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| Languages: | English |
| Area: | Japan–Formosa Korea China–Hong Kong Burma–Thailand Malaya–British Borneo (Malaysia & Singapore) Manchuria |
| Content: | This is an Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) research report issued on 26 April 1945 on a system of policing and self-government of Chinese origin known as Hoko. The report contains a brief history of the Hoko system, the relationship of Hoko to Shinto religion, the idea of racial equality and democracy, how Japan adapted the Chinese system of Hoko, how Hoko contributes to "group control", the means by which Hoko was implemented and the application of Hoko in occupied territories. This report provides a revealing insight into the way Japanese society and the reasons for the war was understood in official circles. The prevalence of the Hoko system, combined with Shinto, was seen by ATIS researchers as the key to the "amazing docility" of the Japanese people. The existence of these systems of governance and control, the report suggested, offered the Allies a ready-made means of exerting post-war control of the Japanese people. |
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| Last modified: | 03/05/2009 09:01:39 AM |
| Source: | AJRP staff |
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