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.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1935
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Manchukuo authorities (presumed; the poster names no issuer, and the Commons record says 'presumably published for the Manchukuo State Council')
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- East Asia
- Country
- Manchukuo
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Manchukuo Government
- Leader
- Zhang Jinghui
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Empire and colonialism, Race and ethnicity
- Event
- Japanese Invasion of Manchuria
- 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), 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
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.
