Dai Nippon Printing (sold) (大日本印刷株式會社)
Dai Nippon Printing (大日本印刷株式會社; 1876 - present) is a Tokyo-based printing company with roots dating back to the Meiji era with the publisher Shūeisha (秀英舎), which developed a reputation for embracing new technologies and mechanization over traditional woodblock methods. In 1935, Shūeisha merged with Nisshin Printing (日清印刷), a publisher related to Waseda University, to form Dai Nippon Printing. In the postwar period, the company expanded further and was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 1949. In the mid-1950s, Dai Nippon was involved in printing the first editions of the Kōjien (広辞苑) dictionary, akin to Merriam-Websters in the United States or the Oxford English Dictionary in Britain, as well as Shukan Shincho (週刊新潮), long one of the most popular weekly news magazines in Japan. In subsequent years, the company branched out internationally and into other industries, including bottling Coca-Cola, but, like the publishing industry as a whole, has faced financial difficulties in recent years.
AKA: 大日本印刷株式會社
A map for the Japanese home front, marking the capture of Shanghai.
南京-上海地方詳細圖 / [Detailed Map of the Nanjing-Shanghai Region].
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This is a 1937 map of the Nanjing-Shanghai region in China, published in the Japanese magazine King at the height of the fighting in that area during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It served as a means of familiarizing the Japanese home front with the geography of the battlefield in China. (more details)
Japan's opening offensive of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
This is a 1937 Fuchida Tadayoshi map of China published in King (キング) magazine during the opening phase of the Second Sino-Japanese War (World War II). (more details)
Celebrating Japan's progress in the war against China.
最新支那明細大地圖 / [Latest Detailed Map of China].
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This is a scarce 1938 propaganda map of China published in the Japanese magazine King (キング) just after Japanese troops' captured Shanghai and Nanjing in the opening months of the Second Sino-Japanese War (World War II). (more details)
Japanese global perspective on the eve of World War II.
最新世界大地圖 / [Latest World Map].
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This is a fascinating 1939 world map published by King magazine (キング) reflecting a Japanese perspective on geopolitics on the eve of World War II (1939 - 1945). The verso (back) includes two maps: one is a detailed map of China and Northeast Asia, where Japan was embroiled in a full-scale war, and the other is a map of Europe soon after the German occupation of the Sudetenland and the signing of the Munich Agreement. (more details)