Arflovers has posted a really fascinating historical document. It's a cartooning book for kids called How to Draw 'Em, published in 1941. The idea is to teach budding cartoonists to draw the major figures of WWII. As Arflovers points out, the instructions are a good mix of anti-Nazism and practical cartooning advice. Tojo's caricature is more about an unpleasant racist representation of all of the "oriental races" than even an attempt to replicate his look.
Things like this are an interesting, and sometimes painful, glimpse into art, humor and propaganda during times of war.
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