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
- Date
- 1940
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Empire of Japan (poster; issuer not named in the Commons record)
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- East Asia
- Country
- Empire of Japan
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Showa Japan
- Leader
- Fumimaro Konoe
- Audience
- Mixed
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Empire and colonialism, Race and ethnicity
- Event
- Second Sino Japanese War
- Leader
- Fumimaro Konoe
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 11, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (Commons tags PD-Japan, PD-old missing SDC copyright status; anonymous 1940 Japanese poster)
Japanese propaganda poster, 1940, Three Girls Revitalizing Asia; via Wikimedia Commons (credit given there: Gale database record)
Text on the object
Original (Japanese) · read from the image, not independently checked
緑茶一杯 興亞の力 [illegible]
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.
