Here is a selection of old Japanese posters featuring political, social and environmental messages.



Sheltered Weaklings (Takashi Kono, 1953) [+]



Anti-pollution poster (Kenji Ito, 1973)



Against the introduction of nuclear weapons into Japan (Kinkichi Takahashi, 1960s)



Anti-war poster (Kenji Iwasaki, 1960s) [+] // Give Us Back Man (Tsunehisa Kimura, 1969) [+]



Poster for exhibit in support of Vietnamese women and children (Makoto Wada, 1968)



"Not what I had in mind" (Tsunehisa Kimura, 1968)



Posters by Shigeo Fukuda



Environmental pollution (Shigeo Fukuda, 1973)



Environmental pollution (Shigeo Fukuda, 1973)



Environmental pollution (Shigeo Fukuda, 1973)



Environmental pollution (Shigeo Fukuda, 1973)



Victory (Shigeo Fukuda, 1989) [+] // [+]



Remembering for the Future (Shigeo Fukuda, 1989)



Human rights (Shigeo Fukuda, 1989)



Hiroshima-Nagasaki 50 (Mamoru Suzuki, 1995) [+] // [+]



Hiroshima Appeals (Yusaku Kamekura, 1983) [+]



Peace in Jungle (Gan Hosoya, 1968)



Goodbye whale (Mamoru Suzuki, 1994)



No More War (Kazumasa Nagai, 1970)



Human Rights - Living Together (Kazumasa Nagai, 1989)



Peace (Kazumasa Nagai, 1989)