Flutterby™! : Images of the Coming Storm?

I'm always a little leery of commentary that claims that artistic efforts in some country presage future horrors, like Dr. Caligari being a predictor of coming Naziism. Styles and fashions get absorbed by the ruling clique and their propoganda, and vice versa. I once saw an interview with Hitchcock where he told of doing some work in Germany in 1924 on a production of Die Nibulungen and he had the heros of Valhalla raising their arms in a salute to Siegfried. As he said, he didn't have any inside information. Even so, this collection of Japanese poster art from 1930 to 1941 does begin to take on a tinge of disquiet as the years progress. Some of the later ones, for example, feature the flags of their puppet states like Korea and Manchuria. Even so, some nice work here.