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title: American Elections poster, No. 1 (Japanese-English poster distributed in Tokyo)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/american-elections-poster-no-1-japanese-tokyo-1964/
description: The first sheet of a poster series on U.S. elections, with a Japanese headline over a photograph of Abraham Lincoln, a classroom lesson on government.
section: Collection
---

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# American Elections poster, No. 1 (Japanese-English poster distributed in Tokyo)

The first sheet of a poster series on U.S. elections, with a Japanese headline over a photograph of Abraham Lincoln, a classroom lesson on government, a large campaign crowd at Texarkana and voters queuing at a polling place. The text calls elections the basis of politics in a democracy, quotes Lincoln's 'of the people, by the people, for the people', and asks how a presidential election works under a two-party system. The tell is transfer: Lincoln's authority is attached to the electoral system as a whole.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (Japanese) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
アメリカの選挙

第16代大統領
エブラハム・リンカーン

子供たちは 学校で国の政治機構を学ぶ

民主主義の国アメリカの政治のありかたは、リンカーンの「人民の、人民による、人民のための政治」という言葉に象徴されている。そしてこのような政治の基礎となっているのが選挙であり、そのなかで最も重要なものが4年毎の大統領選挙である。二大政党制の国アメリカで、それはどのようにして行なわれるのであろうか。

候補者は政見を発表する

選挙日の投票所

AMERICAN
ELECTIONS

1

UNITED
STATES
INFORMATION
SERVICE

[in photograph:] TEXARKANA; KENNEDY-JOHNSON
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
American Elections. The 16th President, Abraham Lincoln. Children learn the country's political structure at school. The way of politics in democratic America is symbolised by Lincoln's words 'government of the people, by the people, for the people'. The foundation of such politics is elections, and the most important of them is the presidential election every four years. In America, a country of two major parties, how is it carried out? The candidates announce their views. The polling place on election day.
```

English text and in-photograph signs are transcribed as printed.

[← Nghia Hanh Victory poster, No. 391 (Vietnamese poster distributed in Saigon)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nghia-hanh-victory-poster-391-vietnamese-1964/) [Credo, Peace, Progress and Freedom poster (English poster distributed in Manila) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/credo-peace-progress-freedom-united-nations-english-1964/)

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