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GI and Japanese Veteran
"The wound to masculine pride of having to kowtow to an army of occupation was compounded by the ubiquitous fraternization of the victors with Japanese women. Endo Takeo's undated cartoon of a disabled veteran encountering a burly GI was accompanied by a long caption observing that things had changed greatly since the two men had confronted each other at Guadalcanal several years earlier."
Site Ed. note: Dower mistakenly implies this image is from the Occupation period. Dating from 1954, it is instead an example of what Occupation censors would have banned.
From: Dower, John W. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. NY: W.W. Norton, 1999.
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