With the help of Mitsugi Nakamura, dean of Doshisha University in Kyoto, Seuss went to schools all over Japan and asked kids to draw what they wanted to be when they grew up. He wanted to write about the effects of the war and post-war efforts on Japanese children. In 1953, Seuss visited Japan to research an article for Life magazine. ‘Horton Hears A Who!’ reflects his change of heart about the Japanese. If we want to win, we’ve got to kill Japs.We can get palsy-walsy afterward with those that are left.” Seuss wrote back saying, “But right now, when the Japs are planting their hatchets in our skulls, it seems like a hell of a time for us to smile and warble: 'Brothers!' It is a rather flabby battlecry. When readers complained about these depictions, Dr. Among them were racist portrayals of Japanese people with slant-eyes, pig-noses, and coke-bottle glasses. Seuss, drew over 400 political cartoons for the newspaper PM. From 1941-1943, Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a.
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