Suko Kiyoshi (4 results)

Condition: Fine. KOS03826086.

Well illustrated with many striking black and white photographic illustrations throughout, small map of Singapore in text, 23pp, 36.5 x 26cm. Original pictorial stapled wrappers. Evenly browned throughout. A good copy Focussing on the fall of Singapore this issue reports on the Japanese campaign to take the island and the British surrender in detail with numerous photographic illustrations. Other news includes Malaya and Dutch East Indies campaigns and Japanese support for independence movements in Burma. Reports on New Britain and Kavieng, which fell to the Japanese troops in January 1942 are also included. This illustrated journal was published on 8 March 1942 and shows General Terauchi Hisaichi on the cover.…

Black and white photographic illustrations, 26 x 18cm, 50pp. Lower corner one leaf missing not affecting the text, published on war time paper and evenly browned throughout, paper in two small areas a little coggled on cover and first leaves, covers trifle worn. Sound copy. This issue of Sunday Mainichi was published on 1 February 1942. It covers the Japanese military thrusts in Southeast Asia, including into the Philippines and Malaya. Both the Fall of Manila and the military advance into Malaya are reported with several photographic illustrations. A double page pictorial bird's-eye map of Singapore shows the location of airfields, oil tanks and military bases as the immediate target of the next Japanese attack. Interestingly, an article on colonial soldiers covers the ANZAC and Indian soldiers during WW1 and speculates on their possible contributions in the Second World War. The article argues that the colonial soldiers are second-class troops manipulated by Britain.…

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of China, which appear to follow an odd hybrid of the old Qing period divisions and the Republican provinces that superseded them, rather than any actual zones of control - Xinjiang and Tibet, though under Chinese sovereignty, are marked as less firmly so than territories to their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.…