A style of painting in Japan developed in the early 1950s and continued throughout the 1950s. In the beginning, it was strongly associated with the Japan Communist Party which aimed to galvanise public activism in reference to contemporary events and issues. The artists believed that “realism” should be achieved through the combination of an accurate depiction of events with the emotional reality of the experience. In this latter sense, Reportage painters had a significant interest in Surrealism.