Yubin Hochi Shimbun (sold) (郵便報知新聞, Mail Reporting News)
Yubin Hochi Shimbun (1872 -1942) (Mail Reporting News) was an important Meiji era government sponsored newspaper founded in 1872 by the important Japanese statesmen, politician and business map Maejima Hiskoa. The Yubin Hochi Shimbun simplified its name to Hochi Shimbun in 1894. The newspaper merged with another paper, the Yomiuri Shimbun in 1942.
AKA: 郵便報知新聞, Mail Reporting News
上海 : 揚子江東部一般圖 : 陸地測量部許可 : 報知新聞附錄 / Shanghai : Yōsukō tōbu ippan-zu : Rikuchi Sokuryōbu kyoka : Hōchi Shinbun furoku
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This Showa 7 or June of 1932 map depicts the city of Shanghai, China. This map was issued as a supplement to Hōchi Shinbun (報知新聞) on the 11th of February, 1932. The first 'Shanghai Incident' between the Japanese and Chinese forces having begun on days ... (more details)
Shanghai.
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This is a scarce 1932 or Showa 7 Japanese map of Shanghai, China. Published by the Yubin Hochi Shimbun (Mail Reporting News), it depicts the city of Shanghai in great detail, with the various concessions all clearly labeled. Two inset maps are included in the ... (more details)
The deliberately forgotten 'Japanese Lindbergh'.
北太平洋橫斷飛行要圖 / [Map of North Pacific Transverse Flight].
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This is an unrecorded 1932 or Showa 7 Hōchi Shimbun diazotype map of the northern Pacific with hand-written annotations tracing the proposed transpacific route of Seiji Yoshihara (吉原清治), the 'Japanese Lindbergh,' from Oakland, California, to Tokyo. The flight was Yoshihara's second attempt, and the repeated failure dishonored him in the eyes of the Japanese public and government, crashing his promising aviation career. The map is accompanied by two period press photos, one of Yoshihara and the other of his crashed plane at Oakland Airport. Both have annotations on the verso. (more details)