Orientation of people to meet war situation effected through President’s efforts
The Republic was one of the official publications of the Second Republic of the Philippines, a one-party puppet state established by the Japanese after the archipelago was formally granted independence under the presidency of José P. Laurel, Secretary of Justice at Manuel Quezon’s Cabinet. The first number of The Republic opened celebrating the first year of Laurel’s administration and reporting the commemoration organized in Manila on 14 October 1944. The presence of the plenipotentiary ambassador of Japan and the commanders of the Japanese army and navy made clear who was profiting from the “orientation of the people to meet the war situation”, the priority of Laurel’s administration.
In fact, this was nothing but a totalitarian mobilization of Filipino resources and industries to “survive” only within the limitations of the Greater East Asia War, which meant total subordination to Japanese Imperialism. This “galvanization” not only meant an economic effort, but also a drastic revision of Filipinos' outlook and modes of living, a policy of “enlightened nationalism” and “cultural renewal” serving the supposedly Rizalian ideal that “the welfare of the community transcends that of the individual and in all cases the individual should be willing even to sacrifices his own”.
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Fecha
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1944-10-14
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Fuente
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“Orientation of people to meet war situation effected through President’s efforts”, The Republic, Vol. I, num. 1, October 14, 1944, pp. 1-2. In Open Access Repository @ UPD.
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Relación
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José, Ricardo T. 2012. “War and Violence, History and Memory: The Philippine Experience of the Second World War.” In Contestations of Memory in Southeast Asia, edited by Roxana Waterson and Kwok Kian-Woon. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press: 185-200.
José, Ricardo T. 2001. “The Association for Service to the New Philippines (KALIBAPI) during the Japanese Occupation: Attempting to transplant a Japanese wartime concept to the Philippines”. 上智アジア学, 19: 149-185.
Matthiessen, Sven. 2019. “Re-Orienting the Philippines: The KALIBAPI Party and the Application of Japanese Pan-Asianism, 1942–45.” Modern Asian Studies 53 (2): 560–81.
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Editor
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Item held at University of the Philippines Diliman and University of Antwerp VLIRUOS Rare Periodicals Open Access Repository
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Colaborador
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Emilio Vivó Capdevila
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Idioma
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English
