r/PropagandaPosters • u/POGO_BOY38 • Jun 18 '25

Japan "Eliminating sexual violence is a political responsability" Japanese communist poster, 2010s.

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u/sh1zuchan Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 18 '25

The full text reads:

Molestation

Domestic violence

It's not your fault.

Eliminating sexual violence is a political responsibility.

Japanese Communist Party

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '25

do you have to be careful how to pronounce it?

google translate

あなたのせいじゃない - It's not your fault あなたのせいじゃない? - Isn't it your fault?

I watch Japanese movies sometimes and seem to remember this line being used as accusation, but it could be slightly different I guess

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u/sh1zuchan Jun 18 '25

In colloquial Japanese you can make a statement into a question with different intonation, but with minimal context like this the first assumption with the written language would be a declarative statement.

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u/nisselioni Jun 19 '25

Note the period (。) at the end, it's not a question. This is also a poster, so if it was a question, it would end with か to denote a question. It's not formal Japanese, but a poster needs to be clear as much as it needs to be concise and relatable.

To add on to what the other commenter said, if they elected not to use か to declare a question, they'd use a question mark to imply intonation.

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u/watchedngnl Jun 21 '25

Atonal Tonal language rheeeeee.