Comments on: Our Japanese Comrades http://www.froginawell.net/china/2007/09/our-japanese-comrades/ The China History Group Blog Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:40:25 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Airminded · Military History Carnival 7 http://www.froginawell.net/china/2007/09/our-japanese-comrades/comment-page-1/#comment-70960 Airminded · Military History Carnival 7 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:00:49 +0000 http://www.froginawell.net/china/2007/09/our-japanese-comrades/#comment-70960 [...] Frog in a Well: China examines some pro-Japanese cartoons produced in China in the 1930s — some well after incidents like the Rape of Nanking, which one would naively expect to have cooled Chinese feelings towards Japan. A Soviet Poster A Day (yes, really!) tells us the story behind a World War Two poster about a famous Soviet sniper, entitled “That’s the way to shoot — every shell is a foe”. Or, as one of the commenter suggests, “One shot, one kill.” [...] [...] Frog in a Well: China examines some pro-Japanese cartoons produced in China in the 1930s — some well after incidents like the Rape of Nanking, which one would naively expect to have cooled Chinese feelings towards Japan. A Soviet Poster A Day (yes, really!) tells us the story behind a World War Two poster about a famous Soviet sniper, entitled “That’s the way to shoot — every shell is a foe”. Or, as one of the commenter suggests, “One shot, one kill.” [...]

]]> By: Jonathan Dresner http://www.froginawell.net/china/2007/09/our-japanese-comrades/comment-page-1/#comment-69011 Jonathan Dresner Sat, 29 Sep 2007 03:06:42 +0000 http://www.froginawell.net/china/2007/09/our-japanese-comrades/#comment-69011 That last cartoon -- especially the last panels -- bears a striking resemblance to the anti-war children's book <i>Drummer Hoff</i>. The idea of evil warlords/capitalists oppressing the masses of Japan does have a sort of Marxist sense to it, though it is indeed an odd tack to take in propoganda, unless they thought it might also get back to Japanese soldiers who could be influenced to resist/desert/etc. That last cartoon — especially the last panels — bears a striking resemblance to the anti-war children’s book Drummer Hoff.

The idea of evil warlords/capitalists oppressing the masses of Japan does have a sort of Marxist sense to it, though it is indeed an odd tack to take in propoganda, unless they thought it might also get back to Japanese soldiers who could be influenced to resist/desert/etc.

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