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Representing Hirohito in Wartime: The Art of Arthur Szyk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Tony McNicol
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When Professor Sodei Rinjiro submitted his book on caricaturist and illustrator Arthur Szyk to his Hosei University publishers, he received an apologetic but unequivocal rejection: “It is well written, nothing wrong with the content, but we can't print the pictures.” The problem was several war-time caricatures of the late Emperor Hirohito that Sodei had provided from his personal collection. “I am sure they were afraid of right-wingers.”

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 3 , Issue 11 , November 2005 , e4
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