---
title: '''Let''s hold the neighbourhood-association meeting'': tonarigumi page, Shashin Shūhō No. 141'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tonarigumi-joukai-shashin-shuho-141-1940/
description: 'A picture-weekly spread headed ''Helping each other over the garden fence: let''s hold the tonarigumi meeting''.'
section: Collection
---

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[!['Let's hold the neighbourhood-association meeting': tonarigumi page, Shashin Shūhō No. 141](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/tonarigumi-joukai-shashin-shuho-141-1940.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/tonarigumi-joukai-shashin-shuho-141-1940.jpg)

# 'Let's hold the neighbourhood-association meeting': tonarigumi page, Shashin Shūhō No. 141

A picture-weekly spread headed 'Helping each other over the garden fence: let's hold the tonarigumi meeting'. A large photo shows a neighbourhood group seated on tatami around a low table; smaller photos introduce named members by occupation. Ordinary neighbours present the meeting as normal practice (plain folks), while the text ties it to the Imperial Rule Assistance movement (transfer).

## Text on the object

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

```
互ひに助ける垣根越し
隣組の常会を開きませう

[illegible — photo captions beside and below the large photograph, including a location line beginning 杉並區 and a photographer credit line]

[illegible — three columns of body text left of the headline and two columns beneath it, small type]

4
```

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

```
Helping each other over the garden fence
Let's hold the tonarigumi meeting

[illegible]

[illegible]

4
```

Only the large headline is legible at the committed resolution; the headline runs in two stylised lines, right to left, and matches the title in the National Archives' contents list. Photo captions and all body text are in small type and are marked [illegible] rather than guessed.

[← 'Zeitaku wa teki da!' (Luxury Is the Enemy!) street sign, Tokyo](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/luxury-is-the-enemy-sign-1940/) ['A stitch in time saves coupons' (British Board of Trade clothes-rationing poster) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/a-stitch-in-time-saves-coupons-1941/)

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