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title: Treasure House of Oriental Literature poster, p. 3 (Japanese poster distributed in Okinawa)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/treasure-house-oriental-literature-p3-japanese-okinawa-1955/
description: A Japanese-language photo page numbered 3, on tan paper, with four black-and-white photographs of readers in a library.
section: Collection
---

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# Treasure House of Oriental Literature poster, p. 3 (Japanese poster distributed in Okinawa)

A Japanese-language photo page numbered 3, on tan paper, with four black-and-white photographs of readers in a library: a student with a 5,040-volume printed encyclopedia, a former Indonesian foreign minister with an epic translated into Old Javanese, a law student with Malay daily newspapers, and two staff cataloguing new Japanese-section books. A CI&E / USCAR emblem sits at lower right. The tell is transfer: scholars and a former minister lend prestige to the U.S.-run collection.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
古いジャバ語に翻訳した偉大な印度の叙事詩※マハブハラタ※を調べる、ハジ、アガス、サリム氏。※※

五千四十巻からなる世界で
最大の印刷された百科辞典を
勉強するもう一人の学生。

マレーの日刊新聞を調べて
いる国際法専攻の学生。

新しく日本語課に附加されたものを調べて
いる主要な目録作製者のアンドリウ、ク
ロス氏と課長のエドウイン、ビール博士。

[emblem:] CI&E USCAR
③
```

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

```
Haji Agus Salim, [formerly] foreign minister of Indonesia, examining the Mahabharata, the great Indian epic poem translated into Old Javanese. / Another student studying the world's largest printed encyclopedia, in 5,040 volumes. / A student of international law examining Malay daily newspapers. / Andrew Cross, the chief cataloguer, and Dr. Edwin Beal, section chief, examining the new additions to the Japanese section. [page] 3
```

A few kana in the first caption (the words 'formerly' and the name spellings) are small and read with some uncertainty.

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