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title: '''Daitōa kizuku chikara da, kono ippyō'' (This one vote is the power that builds Greater East Asia) election poster'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/this-ballot-greater-east-asia-election-poster-1942/
description: 'Election poster: a young man in an army field cap and uniform looks past the viewer with a rolled paper in his fist, and the Diet building stands behind…'
section: Collection
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# 'Daitōa kizuku chikara da, kono ippyō' (This one vote is the power that builds Greater East Asia) election poster

Election poster: a young man in an army field cap and uniform looks past the viewer with a rolled paper in his fist, and the Diet building stands behind him. Text calls the vote 'the power that builds Greater East Asia' and names the 30 April general election. The soldier's face and the legislature sit beside the ballot, so the standing of the army and the state is lent to the act of voting (transfer).

- **Date:** 1942
- **Period:** [Second World War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=wwii)
- **Made by:** Home Ministry, Information Bureau, Imperial Rule Assistance Association and Election Purification Central League (Japan)
- **Region:** [East Asia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=east-asia)
- **Country:** [Empire of Japan](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=empire-of-japan)
- **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster)
- **Issuer type:** [State](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=state)
- **Regime:** [Showa Japan](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=showa-japan)
- **Leader:** [Hideki Tojo](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=hideki-tojo)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Mobilize or secure compliance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=mobilize-comply)
- **Themes:** [Elections and party politics](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=elections-party-politics), [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Empire and colonialism](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=empire-colonialism)
- **Event:** [Japanese General Election 1942](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=japanese-general-election-1942)
- **Techniques:** [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)
- **Regime:** [Empire of Japan, 1937 to 1945](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/showa-japan/)
- **Leader:** [Hideki Tōjō](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/showa-japan/#hideki-tojo)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:This_ballot_is_a_power_for_creation_of_Greater_East_Asia.JPG), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain (Commons: PD-Japan-organization, PD-1996, PD-Art) Home Ministry, Information Bureau, IRAA and Election Purification Central League, 1942; scan by Abasaa via Wikimedia Commons, from Shueisha's 'Zusetsu Shōwa no rekishi' vol. 8

## Text on the object

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

```
大東亞戰爭完遂 翼贊選擧貫徹

四月三十日
總選擧

大東亞
築く力だ
この一票

內務省
情報局
大政翼贊會
選擧肅正中央聯盟
```

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

```
Carry the Greater East Asia War to completion; see the Imperial Rule Assistance election through.

April 30
General election

The power that builds Greater East Asia:
this one vote.

Home Ministry
Information Bureau
Imperial Rule Assistance Association
Election Purification Central League
```

Read from the 500 px rendering of a small original; the top line runs right to left across the poster's head, the lower slogan is in three vertical columns read right to left. Translation is a literal machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.

[← 'The Spearhead reaches SOUTH - ALWAYS SOUTH!' (Curtin leaflet)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/spearhead-reaches-south-curtin-leaflet-1942/) [This Man Is Your Friend: Chinese. He Fights for Freedom →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/this-man-is-your-friend-chinese-1942/)

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