Front, nos. 1–2, August 19, 1942

Designer Hara Hiromu Japanese
 Editor Okada Sozo Japanese

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Designed by Hara Hiromu and published in Japan from 1942 until 1945, Front was a government-sponsored propaganda magazine inspired directly by the Soviet magazine USSR in Construction (1930–41). It was distributed freely by Japan to the eight nation members of its "Greater East-Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere." The combined mastery of its montage-based graphic illustrations and rich gravure printing produced a tour-de-force of pictorial design. This issue is subtitled Guarding Asia, the Imperial Navy.

Front, nos. 1–2, August 19, 1942, Hara Hiromu (Japanese, Iida, Nagano 1903–1986 Tokyo)

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Front, nos. 1–2, August 19, 1942, Hara Hiromu (Japanese, Iida, Nagano 1903–1986 Tokyo)
Front, nos. 1–2, August 19, 1942, Hara Hiromu (Japanese, Iida, Nagano 1903–1986 Tokyo)
Front, nos. 1–2, August 19, 1942, Hara Hiromu (Japanese, Iida, Nagano 1903–1986 Tokyo)

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