Comic Book Strip

The comic strip I have chosen to write about is Captain Marvel and "Swat the Japs". The front cover shows a superhero being Captain Marvel crushing the Japanese soldiers as they are trying to run away from him. Captain Marvel represents everything that is good in our society. He is the defender of our freedoms and he is defeating everything that is evil in our world which would be Japan. The term Japs is used as a derogatory meaning toward Japanese people referring to them as flies or nats. They are pestering the American society as we know it during that time period of World War II. The comic strip shows how cowardice the enemy really is when they are running from the super hero not wanting to fight. The comic strips during that period made Americans feel good about themselves. Seeing one super hero destroy an entire Japanese army showed the true power of the ideals of freedom and showed that totalitarianism would not win out.
During World War II the Japanese people were seen rightly or wrongly as a savage race bent on destroying the American way of life. After the Event of Pearl Harbor the American people were outraged. They wanted retribution and payback for that awful attack. In doing so they treated Japanese citizens living in the United States horribly during that time period. The government put Japanese citizens into concentration camps because they thought they were spies and would give secrets to the Japanese government and bring about another attack on United States soil. This fear and paranoia brought about great injustices against Japanese citizens. Not all those people were spies. Many of them were good, ordinary citizens trying to live there everyday life. If anything they were probably angry about what the nation of Japan was trying to do to the United States. The American people discriminated against the Japanese race which is something that looking back on it the United States regrets but felt had to be necessary in order to protect national security.
Was the United States justified in using the term "Japs" during World War II? The United States was justified in using the term "Japs" because to the American people the Japanese race was a nat something of a nuisance that they had to destroy in order to live in a peaceful and free society. People around the time period still had extreme hatred for the Japanese for what they did at Pearl Harbor, killing many servicemen in a sneak attack. The Japanese people probably had derogatory names for the United States but you never here about that, its only the big bad United States.
These comic strips were there for the American people to feel good and have confidence in the nation as they were fighting the Japanese. Many of the comic strips were over the top in their depictions of the Japanese. The Japanese were a tough people to defeat. They would fight to the very bitter end never surrendering. It took two atomic bombs for the Japan to surrender and even then they did it reluctantly. They were a very disciplined group never deviating from the mission at hand. There were many abuses done to the Japanese civilians at home because of the aggression of the Japanese government. During a war you cannot take any chances in having spies or infiltrators come and plan an attack against you. Even though I think it was a wrong thing to do I can justify it based on national security interests. In a war many things happen that you don't anticipate and other things you wish you could take back. Of all the things that the United States did during World War II this comic strip about the word "Japs", is not that big of a deal comparng it with other events that went on during that time period.