P&P Gallery/Printing Museum, Tokyo
Closes Nov. 6

If you have ever seen a product on a store shelf in Japan and thought that its packaging was surprisingly retro, the reason could be that its design hasn't actually changed much in the years since it was originally conceived.

O'Band rubber bands, for example, still come in the mustard-yellow-and-brown cardboard boxes labeled with a cursive font originally chosen in 1923. Suntory Whisky's unusual faceted rectangular bottle and oval label, too, have remained virtually unchanged since 1937; and Akebono tinned salmon, designed in 1910, has an elaborate red-and-white striped label with a drawing of a salmon flipping its tail that is a far cry from other canned goods of today.