I represent the Greater East Asia co-prosperity culture scheme!

A caricature study of a Japanese soldier holding out a piece of paper with hand. The title refers to the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, a concept that espoused a Japanese-led self-sufficient and united Asia that was free from Western influence. Formally announced August 1, 1940, it was the ideology behind the Japanese push across South East Asia during the Second World War. Japan's surrender to the Allies saw the Co-Prosperity Sphere dissolve.

Jack Chalker, serving in the Royal Artillery, was captured at the fall of Singapore. In October 1942 he was in a party sent to Thailand to construct the Burma-Thailand Railway. Chalker secretly made drawings of the various camps and conditions endured by the prisoners. He drew and painted on whatever materials he could find or steal from the Japanese, hiding his work in sections of bamboo buried in the ground, the attap roofs of huts, or the artificial legs worn by amputees in the hospital camps. His work provides a candid and moving record of the prisoners' suffering.