'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).
- Date
- November 6, 1940
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Cabinet Information Division/Bureau (Naikaku Jōhōbu/Jōhōkyoku), in Shashin Shūhō
- Region
- East Asia
- Country
- Empire of Japan
- Medium
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Showa Japan
- Leader
- Fumimaro Konoe
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Techniques
- Plain folksTransfer
- Leader
- Fumimaro Konoe
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- National Archives of Japan (Digital Archive), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (Japan: 1940 government-office work, term expired before 1996; free reuse per NAJ terms, metadata CC0)
国立公文書館所蔵 (National Archives of Japan), 写真週報 141号, 昭和15年11月6日, 内閣情報部編, call no. ヨ310-0116
Text on the object
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
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.
