Japan: Poster for the projected 1940 Grand International Exposition of Japan; the exposition was cancelled due to the outbreak of World War II, 1938. Between the end of the First World War in 1918 and the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941, Japanese graphic design as represented in advertising posters, magazine covers and book covers underwent a series of changes characterised by increasing Western influence, a growing middle class, industrialisation and militarisation.

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