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Listen to a rare recording of the Japanese Patriotic Marching Song as we flip through the 1939 patriotic songbook that illustrates the lyrics. This song was famously written when the government held a contest to write a marching song in 1937.

Listen to a rare recording of the Japanese song My Beloved Horse as we flip through the 1939 patriotic songbook that illustrates the lyrics.

Discover the ways in which the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95 triggered a competitive volley of attention, which has lasted for more than a century, toward relics of war that symbolized both victory and defeat.

This animation is a modern interpretation of the 1944 kamishibai Soldier Play (Heitai gokko), a paper play that targeted children during World War II from the Kamishibai Collection at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.…

This professionally performed kamishibai features voice actor Ichirō Kataoka as narrator of the 1944 paper play Enemy Surrender (敵国降伏 Tekikoku kōfuku), a retelling of the classic origins of kamikaze, the divine wind that saved Japan from invasion…

Professional voice actor Ichirō Kataoka narrates the 1941 kamishibai My Beloved Horse Joins the Army (愛馬の出征 Aiba no shussei), a paper play made during World War II promoting sacrifice for the nation…