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

JAPANESE SCARECROWS

JAPAN’S GAMBLING ADDICTION

INCREDIBLE JAPANESE MOTORBIKE ACTION

CREEPY AS HELL JAPANESE MERMAIDS