Leo v the 'Yellow Peril'

[Brad De Long]

>The spluttering recruiting sergeant O'Casey has gone apoplectic at
>
>>  the notion that Japan had nothing in common with fascism, and that
>>this simply was a war of European racism against the "yellow peril,"
>
>
>But the facts are that the anti-Japanese campaign was driven by racist
>venom.

It was also driven by a belief that China deserved better than to be 
ruled by Imperial Japan.

Imperial Japan's propaganda line that World War II in the Pacific was 
a war between virtuous Asians and evil Whites smells as rank now as 
it did then.

Brad DeLong