World War II: Japanese Propaganda Broadcasting within Japan and Japanese Controlled Areas Reports

World War II: Japanese Propaganda Broadcasting within Japan and Japanese Controlled Areas United States Military Reports

2,567 pages of reporting and analysis, published by the Propaganda Analysis Section of the United States Office of War Information, covering Japanese propaganda broadcasting within Japan and to Japanese Controlled Area. The reports date from May 1, 1944 to September 17, 1945.

The report was titled Far Eastern Propaganda Analysis dating from May 1, 1944 to February 15, 1945. Far Eastern Propaganda Analysis was discontinued after the February 15, 1945 report. A daily series of reports called Japanese Propaganda replaced it. The new report was an analysis of Japanese propaganda emphases and apparent motivations, plus brief digests of Tokyo Domei English "news" transmissions to occupied Asia and of Tokyo Japanese voice broadcasts to domestic and Asiatic Japanese audiences.

Sections cover pattern and emphasis of Japanese propaganda to occupied Asia, omissions of news about key events and intelligence from enemy broadcasts.