OUR ENEMY JAPAN [Main Title]

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  • Title: OUR ENEMY JAPAN [Main Title]
  • Film Number: COI 240
  • Other titles:
  • Summary: Examination of Japan's rôle as aggressor in the Second World War.
  • Description: Japanese culture and duality ("restraint at home, excess in battle" etc). Pre-war Japanese imperialism: Formosa, Port Arthur, Korea. (Reel 2) Japan after WW1: Pu Yi in Manchuria, war against China. Japan signs Anticomintern Pact. Entry into war: Pearl Harbor etc. Expansion and oppression. Spring 42 - Japanese halted in Burma, New Guinea. (Reel 3) Further Pacific conflict, British Fourteenth Army, Chinese airlifts. Japan in retreat. Fall of Mandalay. Borneo. Allies close in; atomic bomb. August 1945: surrender.
  • Alternative Title:
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: COI 240
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions:
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1945
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor) World Wide Pictures (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations:
  • Keywords: propaganda, British - inflammatory: anti-Japan (object name) society, Japanese - ethnic (object name) society, Japanese - history (object name) Japan (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English Title language: English Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 3 Footage: 2450 ft; Running time: 28 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    COI 240

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