Stark Vintage Japanese Political Posters
These Japanese posters, mostly produced in the 60s and 70s, look so current and on-point that I was quite taken aback when I found them. I shouldn’t have been astounded though, art and culture is cyclical, as people always say.
Take a look at these masterpieces of social movement:
“Give Us Back Man” – Tsunehisa Kimura, 1969
Poster Against Nuclear Weapons In Japan – Kinkichi Takahashi, 1960s
Anti-Pollution Poster – Kenji Ito, 1973
Anti-War Poster – Kenji Iwasaki, 1960s
Environmental Pollution – Shigeo Fukuda, 1973
Environmental Pollution – Shigeo Fukuda, 1973
Environmental Pollution – Shigeo Fukuda, 1973
Goodbye Whale – Mamoru Suzuki, 1994
Hiroshima Appeals – Yusaku Kamekura, 1983
“Not What I Had In Mind” – Tsunehisa Kimura, 1968
“Peace in Jungle” – Gan Hosoya, 1968
Remembering For The Future – Shigeo Fukuda, 1989
Sheltered Weaklings by Takashi Kono, 1953
Shigeo Fukuda
Shigeo Fukuda
Support of Vietnamese Women and Children – Makoto Wada, 1968
Victory – Shigeo Fukuda, 1989
MORE GOOD STUFF FROM JAPAN:
JAPANESE FOOT JUGGLING FROM 1904
INCREDIBLE JAPANESE MOTORBIKE ACTION
CREEPY AS HELL JAPANESE MERMAIDS
