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title: Cartoon of a horned, skull-necklaced ogre and a Roosevelt-faced figure, Manga (Japan, October 1944)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japan-naming-the-western-barbarians-manga-1944/
description: 'Pen-and-ink cartoon: a horned, fanged ogre in a skull necklace, holding a bone, beside a gaunt face with Franklin Roosevelt''s features that is drawn aside'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Japanese wartime manga page with a dehumanising demon caricature of Franklin Roosevelt, shown as published. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Cartoon of a horned, skull-necklaced ogre, 1944 Japan cartoon: Pen-and-ink cartoon](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/japan-naming-the-western-barbarians-manga-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/japan-naming-the-western-barbarians-manga-1944.jpg)

# Cartoon of a horned, skull-necklaced ogre and a Roosevelt-faced figure, Manga (Japan, October 1944)

Pen-and-ink cartoon: a horned, fanged ogre in a skull necklace, holding a bone, beside a gaunt face with Franklin Roosevelt's features that is drawn aside like a mask by huge clawed arms. No legible caption, only a monogram. The tell: a named wartime leader is cast as a demon in disguise, an enemy as monster rather than as an opponent with stated aims; the claim is carried entirely by the drawing.

## Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

[Dehumanization](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/dehumanization/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/)

## Full record

Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Theme, Event, Source, Rights

## Text on the object

Checked for printed text: none found

Checked for printed text

No printed or legible text on this object.

No legible printed text; the monogram at the lower left is the only mark.

[← NIPPON magazine, No. 36, cover (Nippon Kobo, Tokyo, September 1944)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nippon-magazine-no-36-cover-1944/) [Azad Hind, English edition, front page (Syonan/Singapore, 7 November 1944) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/azad-hind-english-edition-1944/)

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