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
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
- Date
- October 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Manga (Japanese cartoon magazine), cartoon by Saso Yoshikuni
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Theme, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- East Asia
- Country
- Empire of Japan
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Showa Japan
- Leader
- Hideki Tojo
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Hideki Tōjō
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 11, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (Commons tags PD-Japan-oldphoto, PD-1996; 1944 Japanese magazine cartoon)
Cartoon in Manga, October 1944, as catalogued on Wikimedia Commons (author given there as Yoshikuni Saso)
Text on the object
Checked for printed text: none found
No printed or legible text on this object.
No legible printed text; the monogram at the lower left is the only mark.
