“Roger Bender ‘My Japan’ No.1” “B&W B-Wind Print”, “The War Finance Division of the US Treasury Departmen Presentst”,

“The Japanese viewpoint… Japanese doctrine… with captured Japanese film. This is the way the enemy looks at the war… thinks it… fights it… to him, this is– My Japan”

“My Japan is a 1945 American anti-Japanese propaganda short film produced to spur sale of American war bonds. The film takes the form of a mock travelogue of Japan, presented by an impersonated Japanese narrator. The film was produced by the War Finance Division, a division of the United States Office of War Information, which was responsible for promoting the sale of all securities offered to the public by the Treasury Department. The technique used in My Japan is a form of reverse psychology—to make Americans angry with themselves for their materialistic values, and then turn this anger against the enemy. These images, having been claimed to be footage taken by the enemy, are placed in a context which allows for the benefits of buying and holding war bonds to be seen.”