The Thought War – Japanese Imperial Propaganda Kushner Hardback 9780824829209

The Thought WarJapanese Imperial Propaganda\nAuthor(s): Barak Kushner\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Hawai'i Press, United States\nImprint: University of Hawai'i Press\nISBN-13: 9780824829209, 978-0824829209\nSynopsis\nA major contribution both to the study of Japan and propaganda in the twentieth century. Barak Kushner meticulously and convincingly reveals the full scope of what was assumed to not have existed; namely an organized, multifaceted, and disturbingly resilient system of Japanese propaganda. Based on an impressive array of primary sources, many only recently uncovered, The Thought War provides a fascinating assessment of the complex and often contradictory processes of Japanese propaganda in an imperial context.\""\"" Michael Baskett, professor of film studies, University of Kansas\n\n\""\""Barak Kushner has written a first-rate study of propaganda in Japan during the Second World War. In a work of painstaking research, he takes his readers into the heart of wart.