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title: Tokyo Metropolitan poster, "Please cooperate in the evacuation" (Tokyo, 1944)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tokyo-metropolitan-evacuation-poster-1944/
description: Black-and-white poster headed in large brush characters 'Please cooperate in the evacuation', signed by the Governor of Tokyo, Odachi Shigeo.
section: Collection
---

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# Tokyo Metropolitan poster, "Please cooperate in the evacuation" (Tokyo, 1944)

Black-and-white poster headed in large brush characters 'Please cooperate in the evacuation', signed by the Governor of Tokyo, Odachi Shigeo. Below, a line drawing shows a train and files of people with bundles and cases, some waving, under a cog-shaped city emblem. The tell: an official request in a polite register, not an order, with a crowd drawn as cheerful and orderly, which says nothing about why people must leave or where to.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Appeal to emotion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/appeal-to-emotion/)

## 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

```
疎開に
御協力を願ひます

東京都長官 大達茂雄
```

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

```
Please cooperate with the evacuation

Governor of the Tokyo Metropolis, Odachi Shigeo
```

Read from the 198 px rendering; the large brush lettering is clear and the signature line is small but legible. Translation is a literal machine translation by Claude, not checked by a fluent reader.

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