Record footage showing examples of Japanese propaganda circulated in Batavia (Jakarta) during their occupation of the Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia).

Poster titled 'Armada Nippon' and showing a Japanese aircraft. Text at the base of the poster is translated as 'We have the might to push on to final victory'. Close-up of the poster. Examples of a magazine called 'Nippon Times Review'. Article titles such as 'British diplomacy in a quandary', 'Chiang Kaishek's Confession' and 'British tyranny in India' can be read.

Notes

Dopesheet for this film is undated, but likely date is mid-late September 1945. During the war the Japanese had proclaimed a Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere and anti-colonial rhetoric and propaganda had been a key part in legitimising their occupation of Asia.