--- title: 日華滿恊助天下太平 (Japan, China and Manchukuo Cooperate; Peace Under Heaven), Manchukuo poster url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japan-china-manchukuo-cooperation-poster-1935/ description: Three smiling children stand with raised flags, the central boy in a sailor-style top holding the Japanese Rising Sun flag, against a red sky with white… section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![日華滿恊助天下太平 (Japan, China and Manchukuo Cooperate; Peace Under Heaven), Manchukuo poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/japan-china-manchukuo-cooperation-poster-1935.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/japan-china-manchukuo-cooperation-poster-1935.jpg) # 日華滿恊助天下太平 (Japan, China and Manchukuo Cooperate; Peace Under Heaven), Manchukuo poster Three smiling children stand with raised flags, the central boy in a sailor-style top holding the Japanese Rising Sun flag, against a red sky with white doves and a pagoda-roofed building. A slogan across the foot names Japan, China and Manchukuo as cooperating so that all under heaven is at peace. The slogan is a virtue phrase with no testable content, and the doves and children carry the peace claim onto the three-party arrangement. - **Date:** 1935 - **Period:** [Interwar](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=interwar) - **Made by:** Manchukuo authorities (presumed; the poster names no issuer, and the Commons record says 'presumably published for the Manchukuo State Council') - **Region:** [East Asia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=east-asia) - **Country:** [Manchukuo](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=manchukuo) - **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster) - **Issuer type:** [State](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=state) - **Regime:** [Manchukuo Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=manchukuo-government) - **Leader:** [Zhang Jinghui](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=zhang-jinghui) - **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public) - **Purpose:** [Persuade or win support](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=persuade-support) - **Themes:** [Empire and colonialism](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=empire-colonialism), [Race and ethnicity](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=race-ethnicity) - **Event:** [Japanese Invasion of Manchuria](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=japanese-invasion-of-manchuria) - **Techniques:** [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) - **Source:** Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure - **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons (immediate source: froginawell.net blog post, 2006; cited original: Hoover Institution Library & Archives poster collection)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Manchukuo011.jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026 - **Rights:** Public domain per Commons ({{PD-China}}: 1935 anonymous work, 50-year term expired; Hoover record unverified) Anonymous, presumably for the Manchukuo State Council, 1935; via Wikimedia Commons (cited original: Hoover Institution Library & Archives) ## Text on the object Original (Chinese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` [slogan across the foot, as it appears left to right on the image] 平太下天 助恊滿華日 [read right to left, as intended] 日華滿恊助 天下太平 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` Japan, China, Manchukuo cooperate and help; all under heaven [is at] great peace. ``` Read from the 342-px image; the slogan is in large characters and clear. It is printed in the older right-to-left horizontal order, so the image shows it reversed relative to left-to-right reading. The form 恊 is a variant of 協 (cooperate). Commons' own transcription of the caption is 日華滿恊助天下太平. No other text is on the poster. 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