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This piece of propaganda is directed directly at the Japanese citizens living in the United States. Fearful that they were being spied and that all Japanese loyal to Japan, the Americans created this using a pun to sprinkle a bit of humor into it. "Keep your trap shut" the poster says as a sneaky looking Japanese man is caught beneath a mouse trap. The purpose of it is to tell the Japanese not to talk to Japan about American secrets, a warring enemy of America.
Death, vengefulness, despair, and anger are the thoughts and feelings that the Japanese government tried to induce into their citizens. They wanted the Japanese to unite together against their common enemy the Americans. "Roosevelt, the world enemy" is bantered across the top of the poster in blood red colors; next to Roosevelt's malignant face. The letters are red to represent the "to those who died or wounded on the battlefields". Across the bottom of the poster a Japanese soldiers lays dying with an angered look on his face, rifle on the ground beside him, and a young Japanese woman in tears caring carrying a baby. The baby and woman show the innocence and portrays the man as a being a man with a life, outside of war, and family. The purpose is to unite all the Japanese against their "common enemy, America."