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The use of kamishibai for propaganda during World War II made it an object of particular scrutiny when the war ended. General Douglas MacArthur and the Allied Powers were anxious to purge Japan of its former Imperialist ambitions, and kamishibai performers after the war had to get their stamp of approval.
Kamishibai is a form of picture storytelling that evolved in Japan at the beginning of the twentieth century. With the coming 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.
Author: Sharalyn Orbaugh. 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.
- Sharalyn Orbaugh
- May 02, 2016
Produced by quasi-governmental organizations and publishers in support of Japanese government policies, these plays served as a propaganda medium during World War II and were performed throughout the Japanese Empire and conquered territories.
Mar 1, 2021 · During World War II, kamishibai storytellers traveled through neighborhoods and bomb shelters to offer entertainment to all ages. The rise of television in the 1950s pushed kamishibai aside, McGowan says, but historians, schools, librarians, publishers, and storytellers are working to keep it alive.
kamishibai, or “printed kamishibai”); and the important role that kamishibai played in Japanese education after the war. In addition, I will discuss the dark history of kamishibai, when it was used for state propaganda during World War II and when it underwent censorship under postwar occupation.
Sep 14, 2022 · By Anna Moorhouse on September 14, 2022. UBC Library has digitized an extremely rare collection of World War II-era propaganda plays from Japan, presented in a format known as kamishibai, or paper theatre, plays. Produced in the 1930s and 40s as wartime propaganda materials, the kamishibai plays in UBC Library’s newest digital collection are ...
