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This intensely racist World War II propaganda film aims at showing the public how different and inhuman the Japanese are from Americans. Setting Japanese people up as the hated “other” was easy for Joseph C. Grew, former ambassador to Japan, who narrates the film. “I can testify that they are as different from ourselves as any people on this planet. The real difference is in their minds. You cannot measure Japanese sense of logic by any Western yardstick. Their weapons are modern; their thinking 2000 years out of date." He describes them as a people who are brought up from infancy in a warlike culture that trains them to believe that it is their God-given right to rule the world, and they will fanatically fight to the death in order to achieve it. As he gives this running racist commentary, inflammatory and often misleading scenes of Japanese life roll by. Children are shown doing calisthenics, soldiers are shown marching, Emperor Hirohito sits his horse, people perform Shinto worship, …
Duration : 1 min 12 sec
Birth of the B-29 is an astonishing World War II propaganda film fraught with anti-Japanese racism and pro-American production of the âsuper fortressâ B-29 bomber. The movie sets the Japanese up as an enemy known for their brutality, showing executions and other scenes of carnage. Then, the narration informs us that the way to win against such a ruthless foe is through air power, with Americaâs deadly new bombers. âThe wing is so light a girl could lift it with about the same effort as adjusting a flower in her hair!â – such is the wisdom of this antiquated film. The B-29 was larger, could carry more, and fly farther without needing to refuel than any previous war plane. The footage of the factory, where workers âfrom all walks of lifeâ labored together, shows laborers stopping to gaze at the skies and listen for the âmusicâ of the planes flying overhead. The scenes of mass scale machinery and production are breathtaking. This gorgeous footage and information, combined with the …
Duration : 1 min 12 sec
Japan JGSDF is developing 40t Class MBT of the concept similar with U.S. Army “FCS Prototype 40t Tank” now, too.
It is expected that the name of the Japanese new model tank becomes “TYPE 10″ .
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