Mary Grace McNamara. Teaching Japanese Youth to be Loyal and Nationalist: Children’s Education, Folklore, and Propaganda (1939 – 1945)
Keywords:
Japan, Japanese youth, children’s education, teaching, propaganda, folklore, Pacific War Era, World War IIAbstract
This paper addresses the propagandistic nature of Japanese education and the meddling of local folklores during the Pacific War Era to influence the mindsets of youths. Cultivating a loyalist mindset in children was a strategy utilized to create future loyalist adults and soldiers.
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