However, instead of going into that today, I will leave the group with a feature-length animation which was being shown in Japanese theatres about this time. "Anime," the animation for which Japan has become famous and which is all the rage among young geeks, is invented long after the war, in part because of the inability of Japanese movie studios to compete with Disney and WB animators. However, old-fashioned cell-by-cell animation was common in the Japanese studios of the time, and during the war a few cartoons were made by Imperial Japanese propagandists to gin up the population.
The movie is Momotarō: Umi no Shinpei or "Momotato: Divine Warriors of the Sea," "Momotaro" being a well-known character of Japanese fiction. You can read the whole story here, but if you don't have the 80 minutes to "enjoy" the whole feature, skip to the last ten minutes or so, to watch how the Japanese portray themselves as Gen. Momotaro vis-à-vis the stupid, bumbling, and cowardly British of the Celebes, and then the final scene where the Japanese, in this case the animals following Momotaro, play at paratrooping into the continental US.
Still, this movie strikes me as delusional. They have lost every battle with us since 1943, their cities are burned out and they are on the verge of invasion. And they still think they can invade the U.S.???