Gen Muraoka (sold)
Gen Muraoka (村岡玄 著, 1887 - 1976) was a Japanese scholar and mapmaker whose work focused on Japanese-Spanish translation and Japanese immigration to Mexico.
Japanese interest in the WWI Zimmermann Telegram.
Latest Full Map of the Republic of Mexico 1917 / Saishin mekishiko kyowakoku zenzu. / 最新墨西哥共和國全圖
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A relic of one of the most extraordinary events in World War I, this is a 1917 Japanese Gen Muraoka (村岡玄 著) map of Mexico issued in response to the infamous Zimmermann Telegram. The Telegram, intercepted by British Intelligence, proposed an alliance between Mexico, Japan, and Germany against the United States in the event that the U.S. entered World War I. While the missive was intercepted and the proposed protocol failed, it generated Japanese interest in Mexico and influenced U.S. participation in WWI against Germany. This is the only known map to demonstrate Japanese interest in the Zimmermann Telegram. (more details)