In January 1946, a 10-pack version of Peace cigarettes was released by the Japanese Ministry of Finance's Monopoly Authority.

The name and design of the new issue were publicly offered as "New World," but "the Peace" was then adopted from the difficult manufacturing technology.

[4] The variant made by the Japan Monopoly Authority uses native Higashiyama leaves from the Japanese city of Ichinoseki of the Iwate Prefecture, which is different from the current Virginia blend.

[8] Inspired by Noah's Ark, as depicted in the Old Testament, a symbolic mark (a pigeon with olive leaves) is used on the Hope cigarettes.

"A dove that Noah released from the window of the ark to know the state of the outer world where the flood happened.