Tanaka Memorial
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The Tanaka Memorial is an alleged Japanese strategic planning document from 1927 in which Prime Minister Baron Tanaka Giichi laid out a strategy to take over the world for Emperor Hirohito. It had lon
Japanese possessions in 1929: (clockwise from top left) Korea, the Japanese archipelago, Sakhalin, Ryukyu Islands and Taiwan (Formosa).
Why We Fight
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Why We Fight is a series of seven propaganda films produced by the US Department of War from 1942 to 1945, during World War II. It was originally written for American soldiers to make them support the
Tanaka Memorial
…sort of Japanese counterpart to Mein Kampf. The installments The Battle of China and Prelude to War of Frank Capra's Academy Award-winning movie series Why We Fight describe the Tanaka Memorial as the document that was the Japanese plan for war with the United States. The Tanaka Memorial was depicted the same way…
Intertitle for the seven-film series
Prelude to War depicts the Nazi propaganda machine.
Frank Capra cutting film in 1943
Frank Capra receiving the Distinguished Service Medal from U.S. Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall, 1945