ther artists, made much use of the trademark moustache, hair wide eyes that were widely associated with Hitler. But this image was used to represent the Nazis,* not the German race. The people of Germany were to be capable of making choices between right and wrong. Granted that the war had been brought on by an error in their judgment, but this could be rectified by a mature race. It was only the Nazi leadership which deserved to die. Japan is presented in the caricatured physical traits discussed at the beginning of this paper. This image may resemble General Tojo, but then it is also intended to resemble every Japanese person. This is emphasized by Images 4 and 5. The former shows the US eagle confronted by an army of stereotyped replicants. Each individual soldier may be much smaller in comparison but the US is greatly outnumbered. Such images draw heavily on the dormant fear of a “Yellow Peril.” In the second image the definition of things Japanese is expanded to include Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast. Presented as a Fifth Column this attitude was so widely accepted as to allow for the internment of over 100,000 American citizens Japanese decent.The elements used to indicate Japan — the eyes, teeth, smile — are all physiological. This would suggest that the failings denote a deep flaw not only in the individual person, but in the entire Japanese race. As the defects are presented as a part of the Japanese nature then they must be irreversible. If the nature of the Japanese cannot be changed then they must be removed as a whole. But there were qualities whose values shifted according to circumstance and which carried far more damning undertones. The first theme, that of stature, was less about the physical size of the average Japanese person and more about making direct inferences of moral lacking. By presenting the Japanese soldier as something less than human the moral obstacles of murder where ...
