[MAP OF ASIA IN THE PACIFIC WAR].

放送ニュース聴取用地図. [Hōsō nyusu choshuyō chizu].
[Wireless News Listeners' Map].

東京. [Tokyo]. 日本放送出版会社. [Nihon Hōsō Shuppan Kaisha]. Showa 17 [ 1942]. Stock ID #176771

Colour folding map, scale 1:14500000, 55cm x 80cm, naval warship photographic illustrations on reverse. The wartime paper is browned and friable but small closed tears along fold lines and edges have been neatly repaired with archival washi on the verso. 79 x 53cm

This colour map of Asia and the Pacific was published as a supplement to a magazine, Hoso (放送), on January 1942, less than one month after the Pearl Harbor attack by the Japanese Forces. The war had just started, but amazingly, the map accurately predicted where the fighting would take place throughout the war. An inset map on upper right shows Singapore, Borneo, Sumatra and Java where battles took place in the area in early 1942. An inset chart on lower left shows various resources and their location, including coal, tin and iron ore clearly showing that the war was fought over securing resources. On reverse, eleven photographic illustrations of war ships from Germany, Britain, the US and Japan are shown, including the Prince of Wales and Enterprise.

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