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Title: Indiae Orientalis, insularumque adiacientium typus

Title: JM-321: The ideal ally
Summary: Editorial cartoon set after WWI. While the spoils are broken up, Uncle Sam wishes for one island, but the spokesperson stepped out. Now Japan holds most strategic islands.

Title: JM-080: School is about to open in the far East
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a figure representing Japan standing in front of a blackboard with a lesson about modern military methods written on it. Figures representing Korea and China sit in the student desks with books open in front of them.

Title: JM-273: China's place in the sun
Summary: China caught in spiderweb of Japan.

Title: JM-315: Storm clouds on the Axis front
Summary: Mussolini, Hitler, Hirohito see powerful U.S. fists.

Title: JM-026: At 70% naval efficiency in the United States
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a man representing Congress in front of a blackboard showing the naval efficiency of Britain, Japan, and the United States. Britain and Japan both have 100% efficiency, but the man crosses out the 100% mark by the United States and replaces it with 70%, remarking on how this will please voters and reduce costs. Uncle Sam and Hughes watch from the window and express shock.

Title: JM-111: One sun that hasn't been eclipsed. 111
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a Japanese soldier waving a Japanese flag.

Title: JM-212: Movies for the conference
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a Japanese figure watching a movie with Uncle Sam. Film shows both the victorious nations and the defeated ones being crushed underneath debt, suffering, and unrest; war sits in a field filled with gravestones.

Title: JM-148: Japan objects to the weapon which he himself has never hesitated to use. 148
Summary: This cartoon personifies United States relations with Japan in 1913. Japan is criticizing California for employing Japanese exclusion laws. These laws are most likely a reference to the California Alien Land Law of 1913. This law prohibited "aliens ineligible for citizenship" from owning agricultural land or possessing long-term leases, but permitted short-term leases lasting up to three years. This act was problematic for diplomatic relations with Japan, as it directly discriminated against Japanese citizens. This law also limited the number of Japanese immigrants to come to the US. While this law actually had little tangible backlash on Japanese citizens, it caused a large amount of tension between Japan and the US. Japan is also illustrated wielding the weapon of exclusion laws. In response to California's discrimination laws, Japan threatened to begin creating policies, which would discriminate against Americans. (Summary created by Mary Delano, MU History Intern, Spring 2018)

Title: JM-W024: In the Allied camp
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Churchill and FDR looking at a map of Europe in the top panel. In the bottom panel, Hitler, Togo, and Mussolini worry about the plane production in the U.S. as the "unpredictable" factor compared to their U-boats.

Title: JM-075: The polite arts of diplomacy
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Baron Uchida, an ambassador of Japan stationed in the United States, and President Taft facing each other. Uschida has a secret treaty with Mexico in his back pocket, and Taft has a photograph of the secret treaty in his back pocket.

Title: JM-106: Two ways by which peace may be restored without casting Russia a kopeck
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting two panels, each with a different solution to promoting peace. In the top panel, Rockefeller comes forward to Komura and Dewitte with carriages full of money. In the second panel, Carnegie purchases rights to build a library on Sakhalin Island from Komura, making himself poor, but allowing the two men to walk away from each other.

Title: JM-211: Will Japan want a "no limit" game?
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Uncle Sam threatening a Japanese diplomat over fair naval ratios in a proposal and showing the diplomat how the ratio would look with unlimited naval competition.

Title: JM-289: Dancing to the spring song
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting men representing nations dancing around "war" organ grinder. The League of Nations watches from a window.

Title: JM-109: Well, General, you put up a magnificent fight. 109
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a scene of surrender: Nogi Maresuke gives Anatoly Stoessel peace laurel, receives sword. Stoessel surrendered on January 1st, 1905 after the fall of Wantai to the Japanese; the surrender was accepted on January 2nd, 1905.

Title: JM-078: Three scenes of Uncle Sam excluding immigrants
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting three scenes in three different panels. In the top panel, Uncle Sam stands in a garden of Americanism surrounded by crows labeled "Unassimilable Asiatic Immigration" and "Undesirable European Immigration." In the middle panel, Uncle Sam is putting up two signs along the coast: "Exclusion of Chinese" and "Exclusion of Japanese Immigrants" while a figure representing Japan, a country who also has exclusion signs for China and Korea, watches. In the third panel, the same figure from Japan gestures with an angry face and Japanese Emigrants behind him, while Uncle Sam proudly shows off a sign welcoming only particular groups of Japanese people: tourists, students, scientists, etc.