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By the beginning of World War II (1941-1945) and middle of the second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), published kamishibai like all other media had come under the control of the government censors, and the stories had to closely align with the policies set forth by the Imperialist government.
Kamishibai came into existence in 1930, just as Japan was modernizing, militarizing, and preparing for imperialistic wars with nearby Asian nations. Far cheaper to produce than movies, with greater accessibility than radio broadcasts, and targeted at young children, kamishibai became a primary form of propaganda and indoctrination.
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Nov 11, 2009 · Kamishibai is a form of picture storytelling that evolved in Japan at the beginning of the twentieth century. With the coining of World War II, it became one of the most widely used mediums for propaganda, targeting both children on the homefront and newly colonized nations.
- Emily Horner
- 2009
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In particular, late-era kamishibai, devoid of samurai but in search of underclass heroes to oppose feudal order, focused on peasant assassins unmentioned in the Japanese history books: the infamous Pariah Elite known as ninja (see Wainscot Societies).
great waves of street kamishibai (gaitō kamishibai) in the 1930s and 1940s; the emergence of educational kamishibai (kyōiku kamishibai – also called insatsu kamishibai, or “printed kamishibai”); and the important role that kamishibai played in Japanese education after the war.
The first in-depth scholarly study in English of the Japanese performance medium kamishibai, Sharalyn Orbaugh’s Propaganda Performed illuminates the vibrant street culture of 1930s Japan as well as the visual and narrative rhetoric of Japanese propaganda in World War II.
