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- W6222557 abstract "Dainty Distractions: the Japan Pavilion at the Golden Gate International Exposition by Krystal Messer In the midst of the Great Depression’s stranglehold, as the Dustbowl sparked the collapse of farming communities across the Great Plains and Washington continued to deny that they were on the brink of world war - America played host to eleven World’s Fairs, in just ten years. In true imperialist fashion, these Fairs fiercely promoted nationalism and utopian dreams for the country’s future; while they subtly reinforced racist stereotypes and social formulas. It was the pinnacle of American escapism. The same drive that kept American audiences packing movie palaces for the latest Screwball Comedies, kept them flooding the ticket gates of these Fairs. i Distract and Diffuse was the name of the game. Distract the masses from the reality of the situation to diffuse potential fallout from public reaction. The United States was not the only nation to see the benefit of such public policy. In 1931 Japan bombed a section of their own railway line outside the city of Mukden; they blamed it on Chinese Troops and used the incident as an excuse to invade all of Manchuria. The U.S. paid little attention, mired as they were in their own economic calamity. ii A month later, on the invitation of the daily Japanese paper Yomiuri, fourteen Major League Baseball players travelled to Japan for a seventeen game exhibition series against local college teams. iii Press on both sides of the Pacific covered the tour exhaustively; displacing war and economic coverage with public interest stories, at least temporarily. Japan, it seems, was also on to the distraction technique. The conflict in Asia continued to escalate, with little U.S. involvement, until December 1937, when the Japanese Air Force attacked and sank the American Navy gunboat Panay while it was anchored in the Yangtze River outside of Nanjing, China. Survivors were machine-gunned in the water as they tried to swim away. iv Japan apologized publicly and" @default.
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- W6222557 title "Dainty Distractions: the Japan Pavilion at the Golden Gate International Exposition" @default.
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