What was the nickname americans gave the japanese in WWII?

Question

I don't mean any disrespect, but what was that name they called the japanese in WWII? I don't know if anyone says it today. It was like tohjo or tojo or something. It might of been just the flyboys that used it but I'm not sure.

Answer 1

ToJo,short for "Tokyo Joe" You were close!TL

Answer 2

Tojo was the name of the Japanese Prime Minister. The nicknames most often used was Japs or Nips, but they also used gooks sometimes.
Tojo was used to represent the Japanese government, as Hitler represented the Germans.

Answer 3

Tojo was the leader of the strongest political faction during the war. Maybe some GIs called Japanese troops some spinoff of the Tojo name.

As a kid I always heard them referred to as Japs, or Nips, by the veterans who'd just arrived home from the war.

"Go-k" wasn't a term in use until the Korean War. It referred to folk of Oriental descent from a different region.

Zip, Zipperhead, Gomer, Slopehead came later yet in another war.

Dehumanizing enemies lends itself well to war. Those kinds of names make it a lot easier to accept the fact a person's killing them.

On the other hand, I'm not certain it's possible to further dehumanize WW II vintage Japanese, and pre-WW II Japanese troops than they managed themselves by their own behavior.

Answer 4

Japs - Nips - Gooks - Slant -eyes - Tojo's - are a few of the more polite names which can be printed without getting reported.

Answer 5

They were called every name in the book and then some. I think the marines were fond of "gooks".

Answer 6

Gooks and Charlie
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Answer 7

They were sometimes referred to as "Nips" as in Nipponese. More frequently "Japs"

Answer 8

Nips or just Japs.

Answer 9

japs