JAPENESE

OCCUPATION
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OCCUPATION

The Japanese occupation of the Philippines occurred between

1942 and 1945 during WWII. Filipinos staged guerrilla
resistance against the Japanese until 1945. The Philippines
was liberated from Japanese control by Allied forces in 1944.
The Philippines was granted full independence by the United
States in 1946.

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PHILIPPINE MEDIA
DURING JAPANESE
ERA

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During the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines, when the Japanese used the corporate media
that had developed under the US colonial regime to influence and shape public opinion, the guerilla
and underground press met the citizen need for accurate information on the state of the country, the
anti-Japanese resistance, and developments on the war fronts across the world.

The alternative press has had a longer history than is usually thought and has played the crucial role
of providing the accurate information needed at the heights of the perennial crisis that has defined
Philippine reality for over a century. The core reason for this distinctive capacity is its not being
burdened with the political and economic ties that characterize the dominant press, which during
the Spanish period was controlled by the colonial government, and from the period of US colonial
rule to the present has been controlled by political and business interests.

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The death of historical writing on early radio is partly due to the loss of
documents and records of prewar radio in the Philippines due to massive
destruction brought about by the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during
the Second World War.

When the Japanese invaded and occupied the Philippines (1941-1944), this press
capitulated with the hardly a struggle and became the mouthpiece of the
Japanese conquerors. With information a monopoly of the Japanese puppet
government, the alternative press once again assumed the responsibility of
providing through clandestine publications the information the people needed.
The first manifestations of the rebirth of the alternative press were the guerilla
publications which eventually developed into full-fledged underground
newspapers, and proliferated throughout the archipelago, challenging the
credibility of the captive press.

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NEW ERA​

 Manuel Buenafe’s New Era is given credit for being the first, having been published on February 4,
1942, only 33 days after the Japanese occupied Manila.
 New Era is one-paged mimeographed sheet appeared almost daily during its six months of
publication.
 New Era was resurrected in Central Luzon as the “Patriot” when General McArthur returned to the
Philippines.

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LICO-CHRONICLE

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LICO-CHRONICLE

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CEBU ADVERTISER

• Cebu Advertiser was the

last newspaper by the
Calomarde in Cebu. Their
last headline to be printed
was the announcement of
the fall of Bataan.

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JAPANESE
PROPAGANDA IN THE
PHILIPPINES
During the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, both the Japanese
and the Americans broadcast messages to Filipino civilians. Japanese
posters, newspapers and radio broadcasts promised a “Barong Araw,”
or “New Era,” and called for “Asia for Asians.” Actual news of the
war, including the Americans’ advancing progress in the Pacific, was
heavily censored.

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JAPANESE PROPAGANDA
PICTURE (1942)

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GROUP 2
ANDAYA, JEANA ROSE R.
SALCEDO, MARLON
MESIDGAN, JEYK
CARINO, JESSE B.
DOCTOR, FEBHE
ANDREA MARIE
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