Press release for the Tolerance Poster Show in Tokyo, Japan

This is the press release for the first Tolerance Poster Show in Japan.

The show will be a part of this year's Roppongi Art Night, Tokyo's most important two-day art festival on May 27/28 (Sat/Sun). While the event recorded over 800,000 visitors in the past, this year's attendance is expected to exceed 1,000,000. The Tolerance Poster Show will be displayed on art boards along Roppongi street prior to other programs beginning May 23 (Tue).

This show was made posible by director Aya Komboo, professor Matthew
Waldman, and SAMCARA Design Lab of Keio University's Graduate School of Media Design, and with much help from Yuko Shimizu.

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