TYPE: Kamishibai
DIMENSIONS: 10 X 14 3/4 inches (each card)
COMPONENTS: 14 consecutively numbered poster cards from 2-15 out of a set of 16).
LANGUAGE
Japanese
ITEM ID: 3465
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Japanese Pacific War Kamishibai Set

DATE
Year: 1942
Decade: 1940s
Century: 20th (1901-2000)
Notes: early 1942

Kamishibai propaganda poster sard set tells of the start of the Pacific War, from Japan’s involvement in China to the signing of the Tripartite Pact in 1940 and on to Pearl Harbor 1941. 

One of the cards depicts Roosevelt and Churchill with bombs dropping on their noses, as well as the attack on Pearl Harbor and the sinking of the British Capital Ships Repulse and Prince of Wales. Another card in scan shows Roosevelt and Churchill in a cart pulled by Chinese and Koreans. Another depicts the signing of the Tripartite Pact in 1940 with Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo, as well as Britain and America shoving Chiang Kai-Shek into the fist of Japan. The 5th card shows the chain holding the alliance of Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Kai-Shek breaking. The sixth depicts a dogfight between American and Japanese airplanes. Card 7 depicts the cigar-smoking Churchill and Roosevelt declaring war on Japan. The eighth depicts a map of the Japanese Empire with Korea, Taiwan, China, Southeast Asia, etc. The ninth card depicts a Japanese Samurai beheading Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Kai-Shek. The 10th shows the Rising Sun and Mt. Fuji with Japan heading to victory. The eleventh card shows the election process to support the war. Finally, the last card shows Japan leading the other peoples of Asia.