Submitted by haas912 on January 8, 2008

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War Without Mercy

After the sudden surprising attack from Japan on Pearl Harbor, the Americans reacted violently with fear and anger at the power of the Japanese nation. The Americans used political cartoons, propaganda films, popular songs, and psychological studies to portray Japan and Japanese, they often presented the Japanese variously such as apes, bats, octopuses, vermin, rapists, and children and so on. On the other hand, Japanese portrayed their enemy as demons, cannibalistic ogres, and gangsters. The most common device used to portray Europeans in Japanese cartoons of the era is that of the demon.
The major factors that the author mentions are the racial fear and hatred. It determined how...

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