Waltz, Polonaise, and Etude
Chopin was the favorite composer among Japanese highbrow music fans in 1935. A forgotten German film created this fad.
Harvest of War (Part III)
As the war in China escalated day by day, information flow was controlled by the Cabinet Information Department and the Army PR Division. General public didn’t know the massacre in Nanjing, the use of chemical weapons and other inconvenient truths. And there was a complicit relationship between the military and writers.
Harvest of War (Part II)
Japanese Army and Cabinet Information Department intensified censorship and propaganda campaign after Nanking Massacre. Ashihei Hino’s novel ‘Wheat and Soldiers’ was a product of such a media control by the government.