Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan

by Gennifer Weisenfeld and Professor Gennifer Weisenfeld

A fascinating look at the anxious pleasures of Japanese visual culture during World War II.

Airplanes, gas masks, and bombs were common images in wartime Japan. Yet amid these emblems of anxiety, tasty caramels were offered to children with paper gas masks as promotional giveaways, and magazines featured everything from attractive models in the latest civil defense fashion to futuristic weapons.

Gas Mask Nation explores...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226816443
• ISBN13: 9780226816449
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 3.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.1" x 10.1"