Comments on: How to Spot a Jap http://www.mutantfrog.com/2006/07/09/how-to-spot-a-jap/ Photos, Stories and articles on East Asia Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:53:25 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Frog in a Well - The Korea History Group Blog http://www.mutantfrog.com/2006/07/09/how-to-spot-a-jap/comment-page-1/#comment-61168 Frog in a Well - The Korea History Group Blog Tue, 08 Aug 2006 18:23:00 +0000 http://www.mutantfrog.com/2006/07/09/how-to-spot-a-jap/#comment-61168 [...] Mutanfrog links to a scanned online wartime comic which claims to show Americans how to accurately identify their enemy. [...] [...] Mutanfrog links to a scanned online wartime comic which claims to show Americans how to accurately identify their enemy. [...]

]]> By: The Allen Report » Blog Archive » Our Racist Past http://www.mutantfrog.com/2006/07/09/how-to-spot-a-jap/comment-page-1/#comment-58226 The Allen Report » Blog Archive » Our Racist Past Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:59:32 +0000 http://www.mutantfrog.com/2006/07/09/how-to-spot-a-jap/#comment-58226 [...] 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.” [...] [...] 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.” [...]

]]> By: Darin http://www.mutantfrog.com/2006/07/09/how-to-spot-a-jap/comment-page-1/#comment-54703 Darin Sun, 09 Jul 2006 22:18:20 +0000 http://www.mutantfrog.com/2006/07/09/how-to-spot-a-jap/#comment-54703 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 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

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