How to Spot a JapJuly 9th, 2006 by Roy Berman |
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Younghusband of Cominganarchy.com emailed me a link to this fantastic WW2 era comic book format guide to distinguishing evil conniving Japs from friendly smiling Chinese. It was originally just one chapter of a larger Pocket Guide to China, the remainder of which is sadly not preserved. As a bonus though, you can try and figure out how these odd spellings of Chinese words are actually supposed to make the sounds that they are supposed to make.
July 9th, 2006 at 5:18 pm
It probably contains the same ‘information’ as the Life Magazine article “How to tell Japs from the Chinese”
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/foster/lifemag.htm
July 24th, 2006 at 10:59 am
[...] Mutant Frog has an article up showcasing a WWII comic called “How to Spot a Jap.” And the English department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign hosts a guide from a 1941 issue of Time magazine. From the opening paragraph: “In the first discharge of emotions touched off by the Japanese assaults on their nation, U.S. citizens have been demonstrating a distressing ignorance on the delicate question of how to tell a Chinese from a Jap. Innocent victims in cities all over the country are many of the 75,000 U.S. Chinese, whose homeland is our stanch ally. So serious were the consequences threatened, that the Chinese consulates last week prepared to tag their nationals with identification buttons. To dispel some of this confusion, LIFE here adduces a rule-of-thumb from the anthropometric conformations that distinguish friendly Chinese from enemy alien Japs.” [...]
August 8th, 2006 at 1:23 pm
[...] Mutanfrog links to a scanned online wartime comic which claims to show Americans how to accurately identify their enemy. [...]