Watch Traffic Signals, Traffic Safety (Japanese and English poster distributed in Japan)
A traffic-safety poster. A split-colour silhouette of a uniformed traffic officer points one arm sideways and raises the other, standing on a striped base in front of a gear. The Japanese text reads 'traffic safety' and 'watch the signal'; the English caption reads 'Watch traffic signals'. The tell is a direct instruction with no argument: an everyday civic figure is used to teach a rule of conduct.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- June 29, 1954
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Health, Home front
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, June 29, 1954. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5730071, 306-PPA-172).
Text on the object
交通安全 見よ 信号 毎週が安全週間 WATCH TRAFFIC SIGNALS
Traffic safety Look (heed) Signal Every week is Safety Week WATCH TRAFFIC SIGNALS
