Do all Japanese soldiers look like these shadowy apes sneaking up on innocent passerby? This piece of propaganda is an example of stereotyping because its point is for Americans to group all Japanese into this untrue mold, effectively creating a hateable enemy for the war. Stereotyping is the technique of classifying all members of a specific race or other group into identifiable characteristics. The problem with that, obviously, is that everybody is different and therefore stereotypes classify under harmful labeling and often hasty generalizations. It was essential to stereotype for the American government during WWII in order to convince the nation that its fight was a good vs. evil, and by portraying the Japanese as mere evil rather than as diverse humans, it facilitated that process. By characterizing the "enemy" under one caricature, the propaganda creates a biased and untrue belief about an entire population.