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Date: Thursday, January 27, 2022. 4:00 PM. Location: Zoom Webinar The Hoover Institution Library & Archives invites you to the seventh event in  Fanning the Flames Speaker Series Propaganda Leaflets against the Japanese by the Allies: Insight, Revelations and Japanese American Contributors Speaker: Reiko Tsuchiya, professor, Waseda University Moderator: Kaoru (Kay) Ueda, curator of the Japanese Diaspora Collection, Hoover Institution Library & Archives In the Pacific War, more than 100 million copies of propaganda leaflets against Japan were made and distributed by the Allied powers. The American, Australian, British and Chinese armies all mobilized people with knowledge of the Japanese language and culture to promote propaganda against the enemy in their respective war theater. A diverse group of people, including Westerners born and raised in Japan and in particular, Japanese Americans, were involved in making propaganda leaflets and played a part in the psychological warfare. The propaganda deployed there ...

Date: Tuesday, December 7, 2021. 3:00 PM. Location: Zoom Webinar On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Hoover Institution Library & Archives invites you to a special online symposium as part of the Fanning the Flames Speaker Series  Speakers Ronald Spector, professor in the Department of History, The George Washington University Jonathan Parshall, adjunct lecturer for the U.S. Naval War College independent scholar and author Richard B. Frank, US Army Vietnam veteran, retired attorney,  independent scholar and author  Moderator  Yuma Totani, professor of Modern Japan, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Hoover Institution Library & Archives is pleased to host a panel of leading military historians of the Pacific War. This panel takes a fresh look at research trends and accomplishments in the past seven decades and discusses new challenges and missions for the next generation of students and researchers of...

Date: Tuesday, October 5, 2021. 4:00 PM. Location: Zoom Webinar The Hoover Institution Library & Archives invites you to the fourth event in the  The Fanning the Flames Speaker Series “A Visual Revolution: The Emperor in Popular Prints” and Launch of Online Exhibition Fanning the Flames: Propaganda in Modern Japan Speaker: Alice Tseng, professor of Japanese Art and Architecture at Boston University Moderator: Matthew Sommer, Bowman Family Professor of History at Stanford University The popularization of images of the reigning emperor of Japan was one among many radical changes of the Meiji period. But it was not a simple matter of indiscriminately showing his face and form in commercial prints. This talk investigates the various ways that the emperor became visible and legible, by considering Japanese and foreign conventions of portraiture and visual representation. It also considers the effects and limitations of the new visibility. This event also celebrates the launch of the Fanning the Flames: Propaganda ...