Content note: Wartime caricature of three named Allied leaders with distorted faces. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Cartoon of Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek, Djawa Baroe, Java (1 June 1943)
Black-and-white halftone cartoon from an Indonesian-language magazine. Three labelled figures, 'ROOSEVELT (Amerika)', 'CHURCHILL (Inggeris)' and 'CHIANG KAI SEK', are drawn as a tangle on a wheeled frame: Roosevelt, wide-eyed, brandishes a sword; Churchill hunches at the handle; Chiang lies underneath, tearful. The tell of name-calling is the drawing itself: distorted faces and a pratfall pose do the insulting, with the only text being the name labels.
- Date
- June 1, 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Japanese military administration of Java (Gunseikanbu), Propaganda Department (Sendenbu), in the magazine Djawa Baroe; artist not recorded
- Region
- East Asia
- Country
- Empire of Japan
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Showa Japan
- Leader
- Hideki Tojo
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Name-calling
- Leader
- Hideki Tōjō
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (scan of Djawa Baroe magazine), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (Commons PD-Japan, PD-1996; anonymous 1943 magazine page)
Djawa Baroe (Sendenbu, Jakarta), June 1, 1943; scan via Wikimedia Commons. Anonymous Japanese work, out of copyright in Japan by 1 Jan 1996, so not URAA-restored.
Text on the object
ROOSEVELT (Amerika) CHURCHILL (Inggeris) CHIANG KAI SEK
ROOSEVELT (America) / CHURCHILL (Britain) / CHIANG KAI SHEK
Only the three name labels are printed on the cartoon. Translation is a literal machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.
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