US II. management of war information B. Messages of management 3. Japanese as automatons and fanatics, blindly following the emperor Samurai tradition: historically brutal killers who idealized bravery and fanatic loyalty, as well as treachery towards enemies 4. Racial war: Japanese as yellow peril, as animals III. Japanese management of war information Propaganda: messages of management a. Japanese as pure race -They were pure genetically, a homogeneous people who emperor traced his genes back to the divine -Pure spiritually -War purified them, lifted the individual to a higher place of moral consciousness and behavior, getting rid of selfish and materialistic preoccupations is "Extravagance the enemy"-Japanese government slogan Fighting and dying for the Emperor: In the battle of Attu in the Aleutians 1943, 2500 Japanese soldiers fougt to the very last man against a force that outnumbered them 5 to 1. Japanese government coined the phrase "gyokusai": jewel smashed b. Westerners as barbarians and demons "The Bestial American People" c. Japanese as leading race in the world a. "Global Policy with the Yamato Race as Nucleus" i. Government guide to establishing Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere: world was to be divided by racial or ethnic group, each in its "proper place"