Japan Publishing Distribution Co., Ltd. (sold) (日本出版配給株式會社)
Japan Publishing Distribution Co., Ltd. (日本出版配給株式會社; May 5, 1941 - March 28, 1949), was a nationalized joint-stock publishing company active during the World War II period in Japan. Established on May 5, 1941 (Showa 16). The government supported firm consolidated more than 200 independent publishers as a national propaganda network. The published under the guidance of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and the Japan Publication Cultural Association. After the War, from 1946 (Showa 21), the company was returned to private management and renamed Nihon Shuppan Distribution Control Co., Ltd. The constituent firms dispersed shortly afterwards and by 1949 the Japan Publishing Distribution Co., Ltd. Some of the breakaway firms still publish.
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Hawaii as the nexus of Japanese WWII Pacific strategy.
Newest Pacific Situation Map. / 最新太平洋形勢地圖
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This is a rare 1943 (Showa 18) large format Japanese map of the Pacific, North and South America, and East Asia. Issued at the height of World War II, this map highlights the significance of Hawaii to the Japanese Pacific strategy - as a nexus for all traffic, military and otherwise, between Asia and America. Japanese claimed territories, in this case Korea, Japan, parts of Sakhalin, Taiwan, parts of Malaysia, and Micronesia are highlighted in red. Those areas under the Japanese sphere of influence, including Manchuria, China, Burma, and Cambodia are outlined in red. Also highlighted are the Japanese Kuril Islands and several Aleutian Islands where Japanese air based had been constructed in anticipation of action against the United States. A stamp in the upper left underscores that his map is approved by the Imperial Japanese authorities. (more details)
Hawaii as the nexus of Japanese WWII Pacific strategy. California as the target!
Newest Pacific Situation Map. / 最新太平洋形勢地圖
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This is a rare 1943 (Showa 18) large-format Japanese map of the Pacific, North and South America, and East Asia. Issued at the height of World War II, this map highlights Hawaii's significance to Japan's Pacific strategy as a nexus for all traffic, military and otherwise, between Asia and America. (more details)
Hawaii as part of the greater Japanese Empire.
標準大東亞分圖 : ハワイ誻島 / Standard Map of the Great East Co-Prosperity Sphere. Hawaiian Islands.
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This is a 1943 (Showa 18) Seitosha (正統社) map of Hawaii from the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere series. The inclusion of the map in the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere underscores the extent of Japan's imperial ambitions for the archipelago. It is part of a wider anti-western, anti-western-imperialism propaganda message promoted by Imperial Japan throughout the 1930s and 40s. (more details)
Japanese imperial interest in Luzon.
標準大東亞分圖 : ルソン島 / Standard Map of the Great East Asia: Luzon.
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This is the 1943 (Showa 18) Seitosha (正統社) first edition map of Luzon, Philippines, from the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere series. The inclusion of the map in the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere underscores the extent of Japan's imperial ambitions for the archipelago. It is part of a broader anti-western anti-western-imperialism propaganda message promoted by Imperial Japan throughout the 1930s and 40s. (more details)
Japanese imperialistic Pan-Asianism.
This is an important full set of 20 maps from the 1943 Showa 18 World War II (WWII) Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere series, by Seitosha (正統社). The maps cover from India to Hawaii and from Japan to Australia, reflecting the Japanese Imperial vision of Pan-Asianism. (more details)