American Anti-Japanese propaganda film - "My Japan" (1945)

Warning: the last minutes of this video may contain disturbing images! I stand corrected; there is little to no -explicit- racism in this video. Still, there is this nasty layer of racism on the background.

I agree we should be careful in condemning this. The values we adhere to now are different than the ones that were adhered when this film was created. I do want to urge you to be critical and to keep your eyes opened.

This propaganda film was created in 1945, during the second world war, by the U.S. Treasury department. It's aim was to boost the sale of war bonds. War bonds are debt securities, mostly issued by governments (in this case the American government), for the purpose of financing military operations.

"The technique used in My Japan is a form of reverse psychology - to make Americans angry with themselves for their materialistic values, and then turn this anger against the enemy:" - Wikipedia

Note: this is not the full movie, some parts have been left out. The entire film is available here: http://www.archive.org/details/MyJapan1945

A quote I'd like to share with you:
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"
- George Santayana

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[originallove911]

there's no propaganda called sotisficate in the universe, man...

[Voxpopuli1861]

So it is an American/pretending to Japanese/giving Japaneses propaganda/to rile up an exterminationist American public? That's pretty sophisticated propaganda.

[Floodlezoot]

I can't believe the narrator kept the ridiculous accent for the whole thing. 

[zungaloca]

bullshit american win

[youngk9lover]

@xjhs2007

You said:

"Choson was weak during that time, and when a country is weak they are subjected to become exploited. It's rotten for those who exploit, but rottenness is part of human nature......... You only have one enemy in your life, that enemy is yourself"

----> So, anybody strong can break in your house, exploit your weak family members and rape or kill them. You shouldn't complain about it, right? Thanks. I can now beat Japs or rape Jap women without any guilty feeling.

[chrysina2011]

@KazuyaMishimaJapan

fuck you japanese,i am asian,as i know,most the people in my country hate Jps pigs most,Jps pigs are the enemy of all asian countries.

again,jps are son of USA,i strongly support USA drop more atom bombs down to Japan. drstroy this dirty subrace of this planet.

americans are whites,tall,and handsome,but what japs looks like? short,dirty(incest、fornication porn) is all of Japan,i am not wrong?

[amiapunk88]

yay America lol

[Hotshotter3000]

Japan never, ever, ever, EVER had a chance of winning against the US. Even Admiral Yamamoto said that he expected to run 'wild' in the pacific for 6 to 12 months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, but that Japan would not stand a chance against the US in the long run. The productive capacity of the United States and it's far larger population meant that while Japan would put up a hell a of a fight, it would eventually be overwhelmed by sheer manpower and material.

[1greatdude]

@KazuyaMishimaJapan <--- you said I "never fucked your mama"? go ask her, she will tell ya whether I fucked her or not. for that matter, ask your grandma and your FATHER as well. you have no idea how much they miss my BIG AMERICAN COCK IN THEIR ASS AND IN THEIR MOUTH.

as for my daddy well thanks, he is fine. but he sure shot a lot of your jap uncles in the head in the Pacific.

tell your father I say hi and can't wait to FUCK HIM IN HIS ASS AGAIN SOON.

[MrBakura91]

You Cahn not Destoy its hawt.