"The" Japanese in American eyes during the Pacific War. Notice the generic face. It is not a caricature of a specific Japanese person (emperor, prime minister, etc.). Instead, it stands for an entire group of people believed to be homogenous, and, of course, evil and menacing. Compare the image here with images produced during the Gulf War in 1991 or the more recent war against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Such images often savagely caricatured Saddam Hussein or #Osama bin Laden,# but not "the Iraqis,"  "the Afghans" or other such groups.

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