This dissertation is the first monographic study in any language of Japan's official war painting produced during the second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 through the Pacific War in 1945. This genre is known as sensô sakusen kirokuga (war campaign documentary painting). Japan's army and navy commissioned noted Japanese painters to record war campaigns on a monumental scale. Military officials favored yôga (Western-style painting) for its strength in depicting scenes in realistic detail over nihonga (Japanese-style painting). The military gave unprecedented commissions to yôga painters despite the fact that Japan was fighting the "materialist" West. Large military exhibitions exposed these paintings to civilians. Officials attached national impo...
During Japan’s war in China (1931-1945), both Japan and China produced wartime propaganda using popu...
This dissertation analyzes the cultural, economic, and gendered landscape in which the camera played...
2015-04-17This dissertation argues that after 1937, mass culture evolved into “carnival war,” which ...
This dissertation is the first monographic study in any language of Japan's official war painting pr...
This dissertation investigates how fascist ideology—the modern political ideology that promotes spir...
This dissertation examines the work of twelve living and producing Japanese artists, including Aida ...
My dissertation traces the life of Japanese oil painter Kazuki Yasuo (1911-1974). One of postwar Jap...
The research leads to the conclusion that the Occupation had considerable "product-affect" but littl...
This paper discusses and reexamines Emperor Hirohito’s degree of responsibility in Japan’s military ...
Art and War in Japan and its Empire: 1931-1960 is an anthology that investigates the impact of the F...
This dissertation examines the role that photography played in re-imaging Japanese cultural identity...
This thesis examines Kanokogi Takeshirō’s (1874-1941) painting, Triumphal Entry into Nanjing (1940),...
The aim of this thesis is to explore the issues caused by Japan’s war legacies, and their adverse im...
The purpose of this study is to identify the results of reforming the social structure and land tax ...
In some respects the Allied occupation of Japan from 1945 to 1952 would appear to be a relatively st...
During Japan’s war in China (1931-1945), both Japan and China produced wartime propaganda using popu...
This dissertation analyzes the cultural, economic, and gendered landscape in which the camera played...
2015-04-17This dissertation argues that after 1937, mass culture evolved into “carnival war,” which ...
This dissertation is the first monographic study in any language of Japan's official war painting pr...
This dissertation investigates how fascist ideology—the modern political ideology that promotes spir...
This dissertation examines the work of twelve living and producing Japanese artists, including Aida ...
My dissertation traces the life of Japanese oil painter Kazuki Yasuo (1911-1974). One of postwar Jap...
The research leads to the conclusion that the Occupation had considerable "product-affect" but littl...
This paper discusses and reexamines Emperor Hirohito’s degree of responsibility in Japan’s military ...
Art and War in Japan and its Empire: 1931-1960 is an anthology that investigates the impact of the F...
This dissertation examines the role that photography played in re-imaging Japanese cultural identity...
This thesis examines Kanokogi Takeshirō’s (1874-1941) painting, Triumphal Entry into Nanjing (1940),...
The aim of this thesis is to explore the issues caused by Japan’s war legacies, and their adverse im...
The purpose of this study is to identify the results of reforming the social structure and land tax ...
In some respects the Allied occupation of Japan from 1945 to 1952 would appear to be a relatively st...
During Japan’s war in China (1931-1945), both Japan and China produced wartime propaganda using popu...
This dissertation analyzes the cultural, economic, and gendered landscape in which the camera played...
2015-04-17This dissertation argues that after 1937, mass culture evolved into “carnival war,” which ...