The 73 featured posters from the Merill C. Berman Collection do just that by providing a visual survey of works that help forge Japan’s modern identity. [Photo: Stephanie Powell/courtesy Poster ...

Even to the less-educated Japanese public at the time, the poster’s aesthetic would have effectively fed them the government’s simple and clean narrative: the mighty army heroically defeated ...

April 5-June 19. Posters are designed to attract attention — the really good ones also tempt their viewers to buy or do something. Graphic designer Ikko Tanaka (1930-2002) was arguably one of ...

A Sense of Movement: Japanese Sports Posters is co-presented by the Japan Foundation, Sydney and the DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion. Catch it before January 2022, when it will pack up and ...

Japan's clean aesthetic hid the ugly mess of war. Tsuguichi Koyanagi's 'Patrol: Climbing Rocky Cliff, with Rising Sun Flag Attached to Indicate Affiliation to Friendly Forces' ...

It's often interesting to see how the promotion of Hollywood movies varies from country to country. French translations of movie titles are particularly fun, and Ghanian movie posters are just ...

Like Ms. Moore, Ms. Takeda emphasized that function is often inextricable from beauty — an aesthetic principle advocated by Mingei, the 20th-century Japanese folk art movement.