{"title":"Asahi Shimbunsha","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal Japanese maps published by Asahi Shimbunsha, the Asahi newspaper company, offer a vivid view of the Pacific War through contemporary reporting and campaign history. This collection brings together maps from two distinct publications: \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/shukan-asahi\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eShūkan Asahi\u003c\/em\u003e (Weekly Asahi)\u003c\/a\u003e, the illustrated news magazine, and the Malaya volume of \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/history-of-the-greater-east-asia-war\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHistory of the Greater East Asia War\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, published under Army Ministry auspices in 1942. Subjects range from the conquest of Malaya and Singapore to the Philippines, Southeast Asia’s resources, Pearl Harbor and the North Pacific. Detailed military plans sit alongside bird’s-eye views and pictorial newsmaps. Many are persuasive maps, using selective emphasis and dramatic imagery to shape readers’ perceptions of the conflict while combining strategic information with wartime propaganda. Browse both publications together here, or follow their individual collections to explore the different formats.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"oahu-kauai-annihilated-military-facilities-japanese-pearl-harbor-maps-1942-p-7-028480","title":"Oahu \u0026 Kauai—Annihilated military facilities—Japanese Pearl Harbor maps 1942","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e潰滅した軍事施設 — オアフ島 [Annihilated military installations — Oahu Island] \/\/ reverse: 眞珠灣を護る要塞 — 加哇島 [The fortress guarding Pearl Harbor — Kauai Island]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDated eight weeks after Pearl Harbor, this Japanese magazine spread maps Oahu under the triumphant headline \"Annihilated Military Installations\". The artwork closely follows Ruth Taylor White's 1930s American tourist maps, so sampans, pineapple fields and palms now surround Pearl Harbor, Schofield Barracks, Fort Kamehameha and the Diamond Head battery, relabelled in Japanese. The author, a member of Japan's RIKEN institute who had spent eighteen months in Hawaii, recalls exclaiming \"They've done it!\" when the radio announced the attack. The reverse maps Kauai as \"The Fortress Guarding Pearl Harbor\". Published in Shūkan Asahi on 1 February 1942, it presents the attack's target through Japanese eyes. We have found no other example offered by a Western dealer. Toned, with a central fold and binding holes.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54181505991003,"sku":"P-7-028480","price":280.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-7-028480a.jpg?v=1790272633"},{"product_id":"japanese-map-of-british-defences-of-fortress-singapore-asahi-shimbun-ww2-1942-p-7-028489","title":"Japanese map of British defences of Fortress Singapore—Asahi Shimbun—WW2 1942","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eシンガポール要塞防備要圖 [Outline map of the defences of Singapore Fortress]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eJapan’s own picture of “Fortress Singapore”, mapped battery by battery, appears in this detailed defence plan, published in November 1942 in an Army Ministry-sponsored history of the Malaya campaign, nearly nine months after the British surrender. Its legend distinguishes coastal batteries, anti-aircraft guns, machine-gun posts, searchlights, pillboxes, barbed-wire entanglements, oil tanks, fortified zones and military and civil airfields, and even separates known positions from those only anticipated, a revealing glimpse of the intelligence work behind the victory. The airfields at Tengah, Sembawang and Seletar, the naval base and its docks, underground oil storage, the reservoirs and the waterworks fill the island; fortified zones ring the high ground of Bukit Timah, and minefields are hatched across the approaches. Batteries guard Changi, Pulau Tekong and Pulau Ubin in the east and Pengerang across the water in Johore, with more on Blakang Mati, today’s Sentosa, and neighbouring Pulau Brani. Fort Canning is marked as a battery; beneath it lay the Battle Box, the bunker in which Percival’s command decided to surrender on 15 February 1942. A note records positions and obstacles built along the shore, above and below the waterline. To the north, Johore Bahru and the Causeway frame the strait that Japanese troops crossed on the night of 8 February. Issued as one of two folding maps in the Malaya volume of Asahi Shimbun’s History of the Greater East Asia War, the plan carries a plain message: the more formidable the fortress, the greater the conquest. Printed in black, its dense symbols make a striking image of a colonial stronghold seen through its conquerors’ eyes. We have found no other example offered by a Western dealer.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54274891546971,"sku":"P-7-028489","price":340.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-7-028489a.jpg?v=1791486041"},{"product_id":"ww2-fall-of-singapore-japanese-military-panorama-shukan-asahi-march-1942-map-p-7-028490","title":"WW2 Fall of Singapore—Japanese military panorama—Shūkan Asahi—March 1942 map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e特輯 シンガポール [Special feature: Singapore]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eTwo weeks after Singapore fell, Shūkan Asahi showed its readers the prize in a dramatic bird’s-eye view, looking south across the Johore Strait that Japanese troops had crossed on the night of 8 February. Under the headline “Special feature: Singapore”, aircraft mark the airfields, wireless masts tower over the island, and oil tanks, naval docks, coastal fortifications and reservoirs are laid out as an inventory of the British base Japan now held. Red roads carry the eye from the Causeway across the island. The black sea, pale land and bold red lettering, with a marginal slogan binding front line and home front, make this 1 March 1942 cover a striking piece of wartime design. We have found no other example offered by a Western dealer.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54274891514203,"sku":"P-7-028490","price":230.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-7-028490a.jpg?v=1791486041"},{"product_id":"ww2-pacific-war-southeast-asia-japanese-pictorial-resources-map-asahi-1942-p-7-028491","title":"WW2 Pacific War—Southeast Asia—Japanese pictorial resources map—Asahi 1942","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e[Pictorial resource map of Southeast Asia: Malaya, the East Indies and the Philippines]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDated 1 March 1942, the day Japanese troops landed on Java, this colourful pictorial map turns Southeast Asia into an inventory of the riches Japan was seizing. Oil derricks, coffee cups, coconut halves and gold discs fill Malaya, Sumatra, Borneo, Java, the Philippines and New Guinea, while blue fish swim through bands of stylised waves. The key runs from oil, tin, rubber and rice to bauxite, manganese, copra, sugar, spices and timber, and includes cinchona, the source of quinine: Java then grew most of the world’s supply, and its loss left the Allies scrambling for substitutes. It appeared as a double-page spread in Shūkan Asahi’s Singapore special issue. We have found no other example offered by a Western dealer.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54274891579739,"sku":"P-7-028491","price":160.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-7-028491a.jpg?v=1791486042"},{"product_id":"ww2-malaya-campaign-greater-east-asia-war-japanese-advance-asahi-1942-old-map-p-7-028488","title":"WW2 Malaya Campaign—Greater East Asia War—Japanese advance—Asahi 1942 old map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eマレー作戰經過要圖 [Outline map of the course of the Malaya Campaign]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Japanese conquest of Malaya, told as Tokyo wished it remembered: this campaign map traces the advance from the landings at Singora, Pattani and Kota Bharu on 8 December 1941 to Johore Bahru, opposite Singapore, in less than eight weeks. Blue arrows and dated stages sweep down the Malay Peninsula, red bars mark Allied defence lines, and command posts punctuate the route past Alor Star, Kuala Lumpur and Kuantan. Roads, rivers and mountain ranges show the country the campaign crossed. It was originally published on 8 November 1942 as one of two folding maps in the Malaya volume of Asahi Shimbun’s History of the Greater East Asia War, an Army Ministry-sponsored series. We have found no other example offered by a Western dealer.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54274891645275,"sku":"P-7-028488","price":140.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-7-028488a.jpg?v=1791486042"},{"product_id":"malaya-sumatra-economic-resources-map-singapore-campaign-asahi-february-1942-p-7-028493","title":"Malaya \u0026 Sumatra—economic resources map—Singapore campaign—Asahi—February 1942","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eマレー・スマトラ要圖 [Outline map of Malaya and Sumatra] 特輯 シンガポール攻略戰 [Special feature: Battle for the capture of Singapore]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDated 1 February 1942, the day after the last Allied troops crossed the Causeway onto Singapore Island and blew a gap in it behind them, this Shūkan Asahi cover announces “Special feature: battle for the capture of Singapore” over a colourful map of Malaya and Sumatra. Singapore sits at the tip of the Malay Peninsula, facing Sumatra across the straits, with the Riau islands scattered to the south. Green forest, yellow farmland and symbols for rubber, tin, tungsten and bauxite chart the region’s wealth, while violet oilfields mark Sumatra’s oil: within a fortnight Japanese paratroopers had seized the refineries at Palembang. We have found no other example offered by a Western dealer.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54274891678043,"sku":"P-7-028493","price":140.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-7-028493a.jpg?v=1791486042"},{"product_id":"death-throes-fall-of-singapore-pictorial-war-map-shukan-asahi-1st-february-1942-p-7-028494","title":"Death throes!—Fall of Singapore pictorial war map—Shūkan Asahi—1st February 1942","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e斷末魔の喘ぎ！ [Gasping in its Death throes!]; illustration to シンガポール攻略とその後 [The capture of Singapore and what follows]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Death throes!” crows the headline over this small Japanese pictorial map, published on 1 February 1942 as Singapore braced for the final assault. An aircraft looms over the island, whose airfields, oil tanks, wireless stations, reservoirs and naval base are laid out as targets, with the city and Fort Canning on the southern harbour and Blakang Mati, today’s Sentosa, offshore. Below, Shūkan Asahi opens a round-table discussion titled “The capture of Singapore and what follows”, confidently planning for victory two weeks before the British surrender. We have found no other example offered by a Western dealer.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54274891710811,"sku":"P-7-028494","price":115.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-7-028494a.jpg?v=1791486043"},{"product_id":"ww2-pacific-war-japanese-military-successes-map-pearl-harbor-asahi-march-1942-p-7-028492","title":"WW2 Pacific War—Japanese military successes map—Pearl Harbor—Asahi—March 1942","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e大東亞戰戰果圖 [Map of the military successes of the Greater East Asia War]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublished two weeks after Singapore’s surrender, this Japanese “Map of war results” turns the opening months of the Pacific War into a scoreboard of planted flags and sinking ships. Japanese flags mark the territories claimed, bombs show the raids, and callout boxes and campaign reports catalogue the Allied warships claimed sunk or damaged, from Repulse off Malaya to the American fleet at Pearl Harbor, illustrated ship by ship. Near Hawaii, the carrier Lexington goes down on 12 January. In fact the submarine I-6 had torpedoed her sister ship Saratoga, which survived to fight again, while Lexington herself lasted until the Battle of the Coral Sea in May. A table of Imperial Headquarters’ claimed totals and the triumphant announcement of Singapore’s fall complete this double-page spread from Shūkan Asahi, 1 March 1942. We have found no other example offered by a Western dealer.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54274891743579,"sku":"P-7-028492","price":200.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-7-028492a.jpg?v=1791486044"},{"product_id":"indochina-singapore-approaches-military-campaign-map-shukan-asahi-january-1942-p-7-028495","title":"Indochina \u0026 Singapore approaches—military campaign map—Shūkan Asahi—January 1942","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eシンガポールへの道 [The road to Singapore]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDated 25 January 1942, three weeks before Singapore fell, this Japanese magazine map traces “the road to Singapore” as the Japanese army fought its way down the Malay Peninsula. Mainland Southeast Asia unfolds from southern China through French Indochina, Thailand and Burma to the long finger of Malaya, with Singapore at its tip. Railways and sea routes converge on the island, distances link the coastal ports and red symbols mark air and naval bases, while relief colouring picks out the mountain ranges. It appeared as a full-page colour map in Shūkan Asahi, the Asahi newspaper’s weekly, whose contents list it under that title. We have found no other example offered by a Western dealer.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54274891776347,"sku":"P-7-028495","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-7-028495a.jpg?v=1791486043"},{"product_id":"ww2-japanese-map-the-enemy-s-reach-into-the-north-pacific-alaska-january-1942-p-7-028496","title":"WW2 Japanese map—The enemy's reach into the North Pacific—Alaska—January 1942","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e伸びてゐる敵手 北太平洋 [The enemy’s expanding reach: the North Pacific]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublished in Shūkan Asahi on 25 January 1942, seven weeks after Pearl Harbor, this Japanese spread, headlined “The enemy’s expanding reach: the North Pacific”, shows how close American power had come. Heavy red lines put Attu 1,850 nautical miles from Japan, Dutch Harbor 2,340 and Seattle 4,500. American bases, airfields and naval ports dot Alaska and the Aleutians, while currents, the January 0°C isotherm and the iceberg limit back the article’s warning that the warm Kuroshio current keeps winter ice from sealing them off. Mocking American fears, the article still urges Japan to guard the north while advancing south, and not to think itself safe from air raids. Doolittle’s bombers struck Tokyo in April; in June Japan carried the war north, bombing Dutch Harbor and occupying Attu and Kiska. Richard Edes Harrison’s Pacific Arena made the same point to Americans that September. 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The flags stand at Aparri, Vigan, Lingayen, Lamon Bay, Legazpi and Davao, where the invaders came ashore in December 1941 before occupying Manila on 2 January. The triumph was premature. American and Filipino troops under MacArthur were still fighting on Bataan, which held out until April, and Corregidor did not fall until May. Shaded relief models the mountains, while roads and railways link Manila with the principal towns. 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Aircraft silhouettes and dashed lines trace Pan American’s Clippers, British Imperial Airways (merged into BOAC in 1940) and Japan’s own Dai Nippon Airways across a sea of islands stretching from the Philippines and Palau to New Guinea and Darwin, with distances between ports. War had already torn this prewar network apart: Hong Kong and Manila had fallen. Colonial labels still parcel the islands out among Dutch, Portuguese and Japanese rule; even the Spratly Islands, fiercely contested today, appear as Japanese. Beneath the bold red masthead runs the slogan “Exert all your strength; defend East Asia”. 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