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[[Image:JapaneseAmericanGrocer1942.gif|thumb|right|250px|A Japanese American unfurled this banner the day after the Pearl Harbor attack. This [[Dorothea Lange]] photograph was taken in March 1942, just prior to the man's internment.]]

After the [[Pearl Harbor]] attacks, "'''Jap hunting''' licenses" were spread and circulated in the [[United States]]. The licenses included pictures and made use of racial stereotypes. The licenses declared it “open season” on hunting the Japanese in the United States and abroad. Many of them reminded holders that there was “no limit” on the number of “Japs” they could “hunt or trap.” The most common characterizations of the Japanese were those of animals. Many of the “Jap Hunting Licenses”, for example, depicted the Japanese in animalistic fashion.<ref>Boggs, Jeremy. Open Season. 06 Mar. 2004. 15 Oct. 2007. <http://clioweb.org/openseason/index.html> </ref>