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Classroom. Year 10. Why America's planned invasion of Japan during WWII would have been an unmitigated disaster. © History Skills. As the Pacific sun set on a war-ravaged world in 1945, a shadow loomed over Japan, not of bombers or battleships, but of an invasion so colossal it threatened to eclipse D-Day in scale and ferocity.
It failed, though various forms of kamikaze attack—including planes, manned rockets and human torpedoes—did sink 36 American ships and damage a further 368, inflicting 10,000 casualties (half of them killed.)
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Because of their often sensationalistic content, street performances of all kinds were subject to frequent bans by the authorities, and kamishibai was no exception. In 1929, when tachi-e was undergoing a ban, three street performers in Tokyo (Takahashi Seizō, Gotō Terakura, and Tanaka Jirō) put their heads together to develop a new form of picture-...
In the early 1930s, Japan was suffering from a world-wide depression that sent the unemployed from all walks of life into the streets. With few other options, many became gaitō kamishibai performers. The new hira-estyle of kamishibai did not require extensive training, and almost anyone with a bicycle, a stage, and a voice could set up in the trade...
Without this increase in publishers of educational kamishibai, it is unlikely that Japan’s militaristic government would have called upon kamishibai to play such a pivotal role as a media for propaganda in the build up to World War II. By the beginning of World War II (1941-1945) and middle of the second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), published kam...
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. Nonetheless, people turned once again in dr...
Perhaps the biggest growth in interest in kamishibai as a format is happening outside Japan. Artists and kamishibai practitioners involved in the tezukuri kamishibai movement have actively been transporting kamishibai to countries throughout Asia and the middle-east to encourage local artists to create their own stories. Gaitō street performance ar...
Japan History: the Asia-Pacific War: Kamishibai. The unofficial English translation for the Furoya no Daichan kamishibai play. The moving story of Daichan, who as the son of a soldier, encourages the recycling of old nickel, copper, and cupronickel coins for military usage. Daichan’s father successfully destroyed an enemy aircraft carrier ...
Apr 22, 2021 · Of course, invasion of Japan's main islands would trigger even stronger response (at least 8000 kamikaze planes) , and thus several times higher casualties. As a result of this, US was more willing to go with weapons of mass destruction (i.e. atomic bombs) to end the war, but also changed naval tactics and weapons.
- No. The general argument goes something like this: Japan was running out of trained pilots Japan couldn't spare the fuel to properly train more pil...
- As a strategy (i.e. something to win the war with)?: No. Japan should have avoided direct war with the US, as a question of national survival. Ka...
- I'll go against the general opinion. Yes, they were extremely effective in the end. The Emperor kept his position, and the war crime trials were do...
Sep 2, 2022 · September 2, 2022 7:00 AM EDT. Henderson is the author of Bridge to the Sun: The Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in World War II (Knopf). T he morning sky was dull ...
Aug 4, 2020 · To what extent did subsequent justification for the atomic bomb exaggerate or misuse wartime estimates for U.S. casualties stemming from an invasion of Japan? Were there alternatives to the use of the weapons?
