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This unique window on history employs hundreds of images and written records from Japanese periodicals during World War II to trace the nation's transformation from a colorful, cosmopolitan empire in 1937 to a bleak "total war" society facing imminent destruction in 1945. The author draws upon his extensive collection of Japanese wartime publications to reconstruct the government-contolled media's narrative of the war's goals and progress-thus providing a close-up look at how the war was shown to Japanese on the home front.Earhart, David C. is the author of 'Certain Victory Images of World War II in the Japanese Media', published 2007 under ISBN 9780765617767 and ISBN 0765617765.
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