Know Your Enemy: Japan

Description	"Produced in cooperation with the Institute of Pacific Relations, this film answers such vital questions as: How large in the Japanese Empire? Is Japan self-sufficient in food? What is Japan's naval and military strength? What are the living standards of the Japanese people? What are Japan's vital weaknesses? How can Japan be defeated?" (War Films Bulletin of the Extension Division Indiana University, February, 1943, 5.) Includes footage of the Japanese invasion of China and the attack on Pearl Harbor. Shows the long history of Japanese expansion and military campaigns. Details how Japan is exploiting the natural resources of other Asian nations. This film represents the orientalist and racist opinions directed towards the Japanese people in World War II.
Creator	Princeton Film Center Gordon Knox: producer
Contributor	Major George Fielding Eliot: commentary writer; Radcliffe Hall: narrator; Lionel Berman: editor; Robert Stebbins: editor; Institute of Pacific Relations: consultant; Hiroshi Saito, former Japanese ambassador to the USA: newsreel footage
Date Issued	1942
Original Format	16mm print
Duration	14:47
Color/Black & White	B&W
Sound/Silent	Sound
Nation of Origin	U.S.
Geographic Coverage	Manchuria, China Tokyo, Japan Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, United States
Temporal Coverage	1937-1941