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Sep 2, 2023 · TOKYO BAY, JAPAN: On September 2, 1945, aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Japan officially surrendered to the Allies, marking the end of World War II. By the summer of 1945, it had become ...
On the morning of December 7, 1941, Japan attacked the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The surprise attack by some 350 Japanese aircraft sunk or badly damaged eighteen US naval vessels, including eight battleships, destroyed or damaged 300 US aircraft, and killed 2,403 men. Across the nation, Americans were stunned, shocked, and angered.
In this curriculum, I will use an example that was inspired by an incident in Chapter Two of my book, Performing Kamishibai: An Emerging New Literacy for a Global Audience. One of the teachers I worked with was in the midst of doing biographies with his third graders when I began my kamishibai project in his classroom.
The International Kamishibai Association of Japan (IKAJA) has designated December 7th as World Kamishibai Day because their organization was founded on that day in the year 2001. In the US, it also coincides with Pearl Harbor Day, and IKAJA welcomes this association because their mission is to spread world peace through the activation of ky ...
There are a couple of reasons that are believed to have led Japan to this attack: A Poor Economic Climate. At the time of the second world war, Japan’s economy was seriously struggling. This was partly due to the fact that the country was already engaged in a war with China, which was proving to be very expensive.
May 2, 2016 · Sharalyn Orbaugh. BRILL, May 2, 2016 - Art - 380 pages. 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.
