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title: 'Tokio Kid Say: Oh So Joyful for Mishap (Douglas Aircraft poster)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tokio-kid-oh-so-joyful-mishap-1942/
description: Under the lettering 'Tokio Kid say', a fanged, bespectacled caricature in a rising-sun cap and a swastika patch on his trousers leans from behind a plant…
section: Collection
---

[Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)

**Content note:** Racial caricature of a fanged Japanese figure with a bloodied dagger and a swastika patch, ethnic slur ('Jap') and mock-pidgin speech; an injured worker lies on the floor. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

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# Tokio Kid Say: Oh So Joyful for Mishap (Douglas Aircraft poster)

Under the lettering 'Tokio Kid say', a fanged, bespectacled caricature in a rising-sun cap and a swastika patch on his trousers leans from behind a plant wall holding a bloodied dagger and a pencil, tallying marks beside the speech 'Oh so joyful for mishap - one more less now fighting Jap.' Behind him workers crowd around a fallen man. A workplace accident is billed as the enemy's gain, with his uniform and the mock-pidgin speech carrying the stigma.

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
TOKIO KID SAY-

OH SO JOYFUL
FOR MISHAP-
ONE MORE LESS
NOW FIGHTING JAP

THANK YOU

JACK CAMPBELL
ILLUSTRATED PARTS CATALOG

W.P. 233   PUB. BY DOUGLAS AIRCRAFT CO., INC., SANTA MONICA, CALIF., U.S.A.
```

'W.P. 233' and the publisher line are in very small print along the bottom edge; read with reasonable confidence.

[← Tokio Kid Say: If Not Working Hard for "E's" (poster no. 714)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tokio-kid-earn-your-e-1942/) [Tokio Kid Say: Rivets on Floor (Douglas Aircraft poster no. 812) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tokio-kid-rivets-on-floor-1942/)

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