1945-07-27

Surrender-leaflet psychological warfare

JapanSurrender-leaflet psychological warfare is a wartime development record, situated in the defeat-endgame phase linking homeland air raids, food crisis, final mobilization, and surrender politics. It belongs to the wider reshaping of military politics and home-front mobilization in Japan.

Other events in this phase

Japanese Imperial Home Front163
  1. Japan Volunteer Fighting Corps mobilization
  2. Kure naval arsenal raids
  3. Potsdam Declaration received in Tokyo
  4. Surrender-leaflet psychological warfareCurrent record
  5. Japanese response to the Potsdam Declaration
  6. Atomic bombing of Hiroshima
  7. Supreme War Council session after Hiroshima
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Wartime Position

the defeat-endgame when homeland air raids, food crisis, final mobilization, and surrender politics converged

Surrender-leaflet psychological warfare is a wartime development record, situated in the defeat-endgame phase linking homeland air raids, food crisis, final mobilization, and surrender politics. It belongs to the wider reshaping of military politics and home-front mobilization in Japan.

Reading The Record

Placed against nearby events, the location, date, and actors around Japan clarify changes in front lines and governing practice.

OWI bombing warning leaflet and Wikimedia Commons · OWI bombing leaflet, 1945 provide both visual evidence and source context for the event.

Media

OWI bombing warning leafletVisual recordOWI bombing warning leafletA 1945 U.S. psychological-warfare leaflet warning Japanese cities and pressing for surrender. It anchors the geography and surrounding context of “Surrender-leaflet psychological warfare.”

Source Trail

SourceWikimedia Commons · OWI bombing leaflet, 1945Open source