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Young Japanese boy wearing a military uniform

This photograph is from the March 12, 1941 edition of the Photographic Weekly Report (Shashin Shuho), which was a weekly pictorial journal published by the Japanese Cabinet Intelligence Department during the interwar years of 1938-1945. This magazine functioned as propaganda that the Japanese government used to shape public moral for the war. The caption of this image translates to: "'Hey, Gen. Aren't you too little for that?' 'Well since you're graduating, older brother...and isn't it usual for a uniform to be too big?' Say, he's right. If it's a little too big, the tailor can make it fit." (Translation from: David C. Earhart, ed., "Certain Victory: Images of World War II in the Japanese Media" (Armonk, NE: M.E. Sharpe, 2008), 192)

Jacar (Japan Center for Asian Historical Records), "A Window into the Early Show Period: Shashin Shuho: Weekly Photographic Journal," March 12, 1941 issue, https://www.jacar.go.jp/english/shuhou-english/pdf/all/A06031075400.pdf

1941-03-12

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