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title: Kennedy, Years of Lightning poster (Japanese, Tokyo)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kennedy-years-of-lightning-poster-tokyo-japanese-1965/
description: 'A Japanese-language poster for the Kennedy documentary, using the same photographs as the English sheet: a colour profile portrait, an inauguration.'
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---

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# Kennedy, Years of Lightning poster (Japanese, Tokyo)

A Japanese-language poster for the Kennedy documentary, using the same photographs as the English sheet: a colour profile portrait, an inauguration, a crowd greeting, a family scene, a funeral procession and a grave. Japanese headlines give the film title, with the English title and credits below and blank fields for date and place of showing. The tell is transfer, with testimonial in the credited commentary: Kennedy's standing is attached to the film and its American makers.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/)

## Text on the object

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

```
ジョン・F・ケネディ

稲妻の
二年十ヵ月・
葬送の一日

JOHN·F·KENNEDY
YEARS OF LIGHTNING, DAY OF DRUMS

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY BRUCE HERSCHENSOHN
PRODUCED BY GEORGE STEVENS, JR.
COMMENTARY BY GREGORY PECK

日時：　　　　　　場所：

5-660 (24)
```

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

```
John F. Kennedy

Lightning's two years and ten months; the day of the funeral procession

[English title and credits as printed]

Date and time: ____  Place: ____
```

[← U.S. Position on Viet-Nam poster, PPB-331 (English, Manila)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-position-on-viet-nam-ppb-331-english-manila-1965/) [Aggression from the North poster 408 (Spanish poster distributed in Mexico City) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/aggression-from-the-north-ppb-408-spanish-mexico-city-1965/)

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