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title: 'U.N. Day Poster #4: With Technical Assistance, Progress Continues to Conquer Nature and Increase Happiness (Japanese poster distributed in Asia)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/un-day-poster-4-conquering-nature-japanese-1953/
description: A photograph of a large concrete pipe section, in whose opening a figure carries a load on the head. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.
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# U.N. Day Poster #4: With Technical Assistance, Progress Continues to Conquer Nature and Increase Happiness (Japanese poster distributed in Asia)

A photograph of a large concrete pipe section, in whose opening a figure carries a load on the head. Japanese text says that with technical assistance, progress continues to conquer nature and increase happiness: modern machines and techniques turn jungle into farmland and desert into pasture and use flood-control works to turn destructive water into power and light, and millions long resigned to misery have found hope of a richer life. The tell is card-stacking with glittering-generalities: single results are offered as the general outcome.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
一方では技術援助を受けて、自然を征服し幸福を増す為に進歩が続けられている。

永い間殆んど何の進歩もしなかつた国々で、近代科学の生んだ機具や技術が大きな働きをしている。例へばジャングルを耕地にし、沙漠を牧場にし、治水事業によつて破壊的な水の力を動力や光源に利用した。永い間、みじめな生活に甘んじていた何百万という人々が、豊かな生活に希望をみつけ出して、その為に努力している。

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

```
On the other hand, with technical assistance, progress continues in order to conquer nature and increase happiness.

In countries that for a long time made almost no progress, the machines and techniques born of modern science are playing a large part. For example, jungle has been made into farmland, desert into pasture, and through flood-control works the destructive power of water has been used for power and light. Millions of people who for a long time put up with a miserable life have found hope of a richer life and are striving for it.

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[← U.N. Day Poster #3: Some Places Made Almost No Economic Progress for Lack of Technology and Tools (Japanese poster distributed in Asia)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/un-day-poster-3-no-technology-or-tools-japanese-1953/) [技術援助で、インドネシアの養魚法が、ハイチ島やタイ国でも利用される。 (With technical assistance, Indonesia's fish-culture method is also used in Haiti and Thailand) (Japanese poster distributed in Asia, U.N. Day Poster #5) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/un-day-poster-5-fish-culture-japanese-1953/)

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