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title: Poster, three girls revitalizing Asia (Japan, 1940)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japan-three-girls-revitalizing-asia-poster-1940/
description: 'Colour poster: three smiling young women, one in a yellow Chinese-style dress, one in a floral dress and one in a kimono holding a tea tray.'
section: Collection
---

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# Poster, three girls revitalizing Asia (Japan, 1940)

Colour poster: three smiling young women, one in a yellow Chinese-style dress, one in a floral dress and one in a kimono holding a tea tray, before flags including the Japanese Rising Sun. Headline: 'A cup of green tea: the power to revive Asia'. The tell: an everyday drink and three women in different dress stand for regional partnership under Japanese leadership, and the poster says in words nothing about what that partnership involves.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Full record

Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights

## Text on the object

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

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

```
緑茶一杯
興亞の力

[illegible]
```

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

```
A cup of green tea
the power to revive Asia
```

Read from the 330 px rendering. The four-character pennant and the issuer line at the foot are too small to read and are marked [illegible] rather than guessed. Translation is a literal machine translation by Claude, not checked by a fluent reader.

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