# Know Your Enemy: Japan

A skillful, essentially truthful WW2 propaganda piece on Imperial Japan that exaggerated some issues by misquotes and by quoting the so-called "Tanaka Memorial" which was a prewar hoax. It was produced too late in the war to receive wide distribution. Directed by Frank Capra & Joris Ivens (both uncredited). Military release 1945. Complete print. NOTE: One of a series of five Know Your Enemy and Know Your Ally films that were planned. However this one and "Know Your Ally: Britain" were the only two produced. "Know Your Ally: Britain" is in the Short Format Films Collection (shorts).

- Kind: Commercial
- Runtime: 1 h 2 min
- By: Frank Capra (uncredited)
- Genres: Documentary, Propaganda
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/KnowYourEnemyJapan)
- Licence or status: [Public Domain Mark 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/KnowYourEnemyJapan?play=1)