Circa 1942. Small airborne propaganda leaflet printed on one side only featuring a colour illustration. Appears to have been dropped during the Malayan Campaign. 14.6 x 19.8 cm, creased and marked on the reverse. Image still very clear and strong. Airborne colour propaganda leaflet urges the British troops to surrender..... More
New York. Institute of Pacific Relations. 1945. xiii + 169pp,index. Bookplate of George E. Sokolsky (1893 - 1962), journalist and China expert, front paste down. Little browning and marking endpapers, lettering on spine dull, otherwise good hardback copy. Report of the discussions that took place at the Ninth Conference of..... More
![Stock ID #159896 朝日新聞 [Asahi shinbun] [Asahi Newspaper]. JAPANESE WORLD WAR II...](https://asiabookroom.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/159896.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1785740540)
Tokyo: Asahi shinbun. Showa 17. [January 18, 1942]. 4 page broadsheet newspaper folded, evenly browned. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, very good copy. 54 x 41cm. Main headline: "Closing in on Singapore Vanguard: Rear-guard of Defeated British Army Cut Off; Battle of Annihilation in Johor". Other headlines include: "Occupation..... More
東京. [Tokyo]. 都新聞社.[Miyako shinbunsha]. 昭和十七 ( 1942). Double sided newsheet, browned with a few small holes, folded. Good copy. 54 x 40.2cm. WWII Japanese newspaper, one sheet printed double side, issued by Miyako Shinbunsha on January 18th 1942. Front page features latest military news including Japanese army's advances in Johore..... More
![Stock ID #164419 ハワイマレー沖海戦. [Hawai Marē-oki kaisen]. [Poster of a...](https://asiabookroom.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/164419.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1785741351)
東宝. [Toho Film], (circa 2002). Colour poster, 72.5 x 52cm. Very good copy. This poster was published as part of the promotion of the 2002 release of the remastered DVD editions of this 1942 Japanese film. Various scenes from the film are featured in order to reproduce the atmosphere during..... More
![Stock ID #173287 日満ナカヨシヌリエ. [Nichi-Man nakayoshi nurie]. [Japan...](https://asiabookroom.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/173287.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1785744968)
京城 [Keijō / Seoul]. 半島時論社. [Hantō Jironsha]. Showa 19 [ 1944]. Children's colouring book, contains 15 (of 16) unused black and white line illustrations designed for colouring in, 16 21 x 15.5cm, very good copy. This interesting Japanese war time propaganda colouring book published in Seoul in 1944 is based..... More
![Stock ID #163157 アサヒグラフ. [Asahi gurafu]. [WWII Japanese Detention in South...](https://asiabookroom.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/163157.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1785740539)
朝日新聞東京本社. Showa 19 [ 1944]. Map, black and white photographic illustrations, 14pp, 36.3 cm x 26 cm, original pictorial wrappers little foxed at edges, very good. This issue includes an interview with Japanese people held in a detention centre in South Australia. It describes how the Japanese were not allowed..... More