Japanese Committee on Trade and Information

Photos, from left to right, of Japanese agents Ralph Townsend, Frederick Vincent Williams, and David Warren Ryder

The Japanese Committee on Trade and Information was a Japanese-run propaganda organization that was active in the United States between 1937 and 1940. In Japanese it was called the Jikyoku Iinkai (時局委員会) , literally the "Current Affairs Committee".[1]

Many of its former members and paid propagandists were tried and imprisoned in the aftermath of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

  1. ^ Hearings before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate - Second Session on Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States (Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1956), 724.