Dehumanizing Wartime Enemies: Racist Caricatures of the Japanese
1. • Japanese were viewed as
something subhuman and
repulsive.
• Japanese caricatures were
mostly short, round-faced,
bucktoothed and frequently
slant-eyed.
2. • Tin Pan Alley song: “There’ll be no
Adolph Hitler nor Yellow Japs to Fear.”
• Dehumanizing the enemy is common
among men in combat.
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4. • Cartoon in the U.S. Marine monthly Leatherneck from March 1945.
• Some Marines went into battle with “Rodent Exterminator” written
on their helmets.
5. • The Japanese now wearing western business
suits and practicing capitalism
• The Last Mission 1946
