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title: 'Ryukyuan-Made License Tags: Press and Spray Photographs (Japanese poster distributed in the Ryukyu Islands)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ryukyuan-made-license-tags-press-and-spray-japanese-1955/
description: A Japanese-language photo sheet on a brown ground ringed with scattered digits and small drawn vehicles. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.
section: Collection
---

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[![Ryukyuan-Made License Tags: Press and Spray Photographs, 1955 US poster: A Japanese-language photo sheet on a brown ground](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/ryukyuan-made-license-tags-press-and-spray-japanese-1955.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/ryukyuan-made-license-tags-press-and-spray-japanese-1955.jpg)

# Ryukyuan-Made License Tags: Press and Spray Photographs (Japanese poster distributed in the Ryukyu Islands)

A Japanese-language photo sheet on a brown ground ringed with scattered digits and small drawn vehicles. Three photographs show workers at a Ryukyuan factory: one fits a '1955' tab onto a plate in a press, one operates a 35-ton hydraulic press stamping numbers on a metal plate, and one spray-paints numerals. Captions name the workers. The tell is plain-folks: named local workmen show license tags being made on the islands.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

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

```
[で]
られた
番号札

1955年を示す小さな付け札が喜瀬普元氏によってはめこまれている。

強力な機械が金属板の上に数字を押している。

最後の段階において仲間武義氏がスプレイガンをつかって番号札の白に数字を黒にぬっている。

[photo signs:] HYDRAULIC PRESS 35TON / ハイドロリック プレス / PAINTING
[emblem:] CI&E USCAR
```

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

```
[...]made license tags (title cut off at the left edge)

A small tab showing the year 1955 is being fitted in by Mr. Kise Fugen [name read approximately].

A powerful machine is stamping numbers onto a metal plate.

At the final stage Mr. Nakama Takeyoshi [name read approximately], using a spray gun, paints the numbers black on the white of the plate.

[photo signs:] Hydraulic Press 35 ton / Painting
```

Hand-lettered captions; some kana are drawn in a stylised hand and the worker names are read approximately. Scattered numerals in the border are decoration and are not transcribed.

[← Ryukyuan-American Friendship Committee Bicycle Race (Japanese-language poster distributed in the Ryukyu Islands)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ryukyuan-american-friendship-committee-bicycle-race-japanese-1955/) [Ryukyuan-Made License Tags: Makiminato Motor Company Plant and the 5000 Plate (Japanese poster distributed in the Ryukyu Islands) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ryukyuan-made-license-tags-text-and-5000-plate-japanese-1955/)

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