Unlike its counterpart Your Job in Germany (later reedited hy WarnerBros. as Hitler Lives? and Award winner and programmed during Il Cinema Ritrovato two years ago), Our Job in Japan was probably never seen by either military or civilian audiences. Ironically, it was to be the final film produced by Frant Capra’s Special Services Unit, shortly before the majority ot its members returned to civilian life. By ihe time it was readied for release in March 1946, peace with Japan was already an established fact. Thus, in tone and approach toward its subject, the film could afford to be much more magnanimous than Your Job in Germany. The Japanese are portrayed here merely as the victims of cynical leaders who had filled their minds with thoughts of world conquest. The ideas that filI the Japanese brain, the film suggests, must be changed before Japan can hope to rejoin the community of peacefull nations. (…) According to its director, Theodor Geisel, Our Job in Japan displeased General MacArthur and all prints of the film quickly disappeared.