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Presidential Address: Weapons of the Weak, Weapons of the Strong — The…

- - - - Ridicule as political weapon
        
        Enforced by mechanical reproduction
        (printing press)
        
        Visual ridicule
        (caricatures)
- - - - “Condensation, simplification, distillation”
        
        Focusing on current events
  - - - Made complex politics more digestible
- - - - Started with publication of Japan Punch
        (Ponchi-e)
        
        Toba-e (comic books)
        
        Hanjimono (visual puns)
  - - - Nipponchi (1874)
        
        Marumaru Chinbun (1877)
  - - - Nationalism and imperialism as subject
  - - - Propaganda tool
  - - - Contrast with others defined Japan’s identity