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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791439603321

Autore

De Mendelssohn Peter <1908-, >

Titolo

Japan's political warfare / / Peter de Mendelssohn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 1944, 2011

ISBN

9780203844025

1-136-91724-1

1-136-91725-X

1-283-03761-0

9786613037619

0-203-84402-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (153 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions. Japan ; ; v. 68

Disciplina

940.5488752

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Japan

World War, 1939-1945 - Propaganda

Propaganda, Japanese

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1944.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Machinery and methods -- pt. 2. Ideology and policies.

Sommario/riassunto

After more than six years of active fighting in the Far East and over two years of open war between Japan and the Anglo-Saxon powers, Japanese political warfare was still a factor largely unknown in the Western world. Overshadowed by the much nearer and more closely felt exertions of the Nazi propaganda machine, it came to be regarded as too remote to have any noticeable bearing on the general course of the war. In the months leading up to Pearl Harbour, Tokyo Radio, the official Domei News Agency and the Japanese press jointly conducted an efficient war of nerves which, for all its alleged