2. American Prejudice After Pearl Harbor, the Japanese people, rather than the military leaders who organized the attack, were the enemy of the people Americans would refer to the Japanese as Yellow Devils, Monkeys or Apes, and Little Men, regarding not their stature but their childishness The Japanese were regarded as vermin, ironically the same way that the hated Nazis felt about the Jews, but anti-Semitism in America veiled this from being perceived as bad
3. Japanese Prejudice The Japanese were and are highly ethnocentric, and started the Co-Prosperity Sphere to help “educate” and lift up their Asian brothers, but that they would never reach the level of the Japanese The Japanese regarded the white men as the Devils, or Oni, of myth, who were a constant threat just outside the city or country. Ironically, after the war, American Military stayed to assist the Japanese in recovery, an attribute the Oni have being that they can be won over or tricked into become helpers of the town or subdued. The Japanese felt of themselves as “a million hearts beating as one”, which ironically contrasts well with the American idea of “a Jap is a Jap”
