Ōmura Ichizō (sold) (大村, 一蔵)
Ōmura Ichizō (大村, 一蔵; February 15, 1884 - January 29, 1944) was a Japanese mining engineer active in Tokyo in the first half of the 20th century. Ōmura was born in Tottori Katahara 20th Mansion (now Katahara Town, Tottori City). He studied at the Tokyo Imperial Science University (Tokyo U.) graduating with a degree in Geology in 1907 (Meiji 40). His first work was with a graphite company in Shimonoseki but in 1912 (Meiji 45) he joined the Takara Oil Company in Nagaoka. He worked as an advisor to Karafuto Oil and later as director of Nippon Oil. In 1942, he became vice president of Teikoku Oil. Around this time, he also lectured at Kyushu Imperial University, Waseda University, and at Kyoto Science University. In addition to his geological work in the oil industry, he was admired as a great promoter of sports, particularly sumo wrestling and baseball, where he was active with several tournaments and championships. Ōmura died suddenly of a brain hemorrhage at just 59.
AKA: 大村, 一蔵
Japanese oil prospecting in the East Indies during World War II.
西部南洋地質圖 / Western Ocean Geological Map. / Seibu nan'yō chishitsuzu.
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An exceptional discovery, this is Ōmura Ichizō's World War II era geological survey of Malay and the East Indies. The survey was completed and published one year after the Japanese conquest of the region in order to assess drilling and mining viability. With a multi-front war in progress, the Japanese needed to acquire as many raw material resources as possible and the geological exploitation of this region was essential to their ambitions. The map depicts from the Malaya Peninsula to southern Java and from Aceh (northwester Sumatra) to North Borneo. Singapore, at the southern tip of Malaya, takes center stage. (more details)