This unit introduces Japanese political graphics from the 1920s and 1930s selected from
the remarkable collection of several thousand posters and handbills maintained by the
Ohara Institute for Social Science Research at Hosei University in Tokyo. Focusing on
leftwing political parties, labor-union and tenant-farmer organizations and protests, and
proletarian social and cultural movements in general, the Ohara collection opens a
window on the domestic conflict and turbulence that lay beneath the ultimate triumph of
militarism and authoritarianism in Imperial Japan.
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