Some of the others cartoons he drew on the subject during the war either named Japan or at least identified the characters as representing such, and I misremembered the '5th Column' one thinking it did, too.
I looked it up, there are actually a lot of anti-Japanese cartoons of his, but the "waiting for orders" cartoon that everyone knows about doesn't actually specify which east asian group he's being racist towards
Dr. Seuss is not around this time to draw a crass cartoon justifying them, but I supposed they could just
editre-use the old one.They don't even need to edit it, it doesn't actually say the word "Japan" anywhere on it
You are right, my bad.
Some of the others cartoons he drew on the subject during the war either named Japan or at least identified the characters as representing such, and I misremembered the '5th Column' one thinking it did, too.
I looked it up, there are actually a lot of anti-Japanese cartoons of his, but the "waiting for orders" cartoon that everyone knows about doesn't actually specify which east asian group he's being racist towards