[SUKO, KIYOSHI]. 須古清.

大東亜共栄圏詳図. [Daitōa kyōeiken shōzu].
[Detailed Map of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere].

大阪. [Osaka]. 大阪毎日新聞社. [Ōsaka Mainichi Shinbunsha]. Showa 15 [ 1940]. Stock ID #177782

Colour folding map, scale 1:11000000, 77 x 109cm. Some minor wear and small holes at folds, a little soiling on reverse, a very good copy.

This large colour map was published in 1940 and covers India to the southwest and Aleutian Islands to the northeast. To the south, the map shows New Guinea and the northern end of Australia. Territories of the Japanese Empire are enclosed in red border lines while other Asian regions and colonies are coloured according to their suzerains.

Of interest is the close attention given to the internal borders of China, which appear to follow an odd hybrid of the old Qing period divisions and the Republican provinces that superseded them, rather than any actual zones of control - Xinjiang and Tibet, though under Chinese sovereignty, are marked as less firmly so than territories to their east. As the map predates the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact, both Mongolia and Tuva are still marked as under nominal Chinese sovereignty with growing Russian influence. Typical for the period, Arunachal Pradesh is marked as Chinese, rather than Indian, territory.

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