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Japan: 'Mobilizing All Citizens and Organizations for the Nation', Industrial Guilds Central Committee, 1937

Japan: 'Mobilizing All Citizens and Organizations for the Nation', Industrial Guilds Central Committee, 1937

During late 1920s and 1930s Japan, a new poster style developed that reflected the growing influence of the masses in Japanese society. These art posters were strongly influenced by the emerging political forces of Communism and Fascism in Europe and the Soviet Union, adopting a style that incorporated bold slogans with artistic themes ranging from Leftist socialist realism through Stateism and state-directed public welfare, to Militarism and Imperialist expansionism.

Though diverse in their messages, all bear the stamp of the ovebearing proletarian art of the time, reflecting shades of Nazi Germany, Socialist Russia and Fascist Italy in the Far East.

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