Anti-Japanese sentiment 反日
（重定向自Japanophobe）
![An American propaganda poster -](/Images/godic/202501/21/Alaska_Death_Trap0455.jpg")
![Anti-Japanese sentiment in the U.S. peaked during World War II. The government subsidized the production of propaganda posters using exaggerated stereotypes.](/Images/godic/202501/21/Tokio_Kid_Say0455.png")
![An American propaganda poster from World War II produced under the Works Progress Administration.](/Images/godic/202501/21/Salvage_Scrap_propaganda_poster_crop20455.jpg")
Anti-Japanese sentiment involves hatred, grievance, distrust, dehumanization, intimidation, fear, hostility and/or general dislike of the Japanese people and Japanese diaspora as an ethnic or national group; Japan; Japanese culture; and/or anything Japanese. Sometimes the terms Japanophobia, Nipponophobia and anti-Japanism are also used. Its opposite is Japanophilia.