Uncivilized

Among the more common characterizations of the Japanese was the idea that they were “uncivilized”—ugly, notorious, villanous, and savage. These illustrations

Here one illustrator called upon the romanticized idea of the United States as a rough but honest “cowboy” who was stabbed in the back by Japan. Here Japan is depicted in Nazi Germany dress, yet the character still retains distortedly gruesome facial features. The Nazi dress on the Japanese character suggests that the Japanese were mindless puppets controlled by Germany.

This Captain America comic book cover shows the title hero battling skeleton-like Japanese soldiers.

This war poster demanded that American workers continued working hard until “every murdering Jap is wiped out.”