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Map of Japanese conquests from 1937 to 1942. On November 5, 1941, Yamamoto issued his "Top Secret Operation Order no. 1" to the Combined Fleet. This document lays out the position that the Empire of Japan must drive out Britain and America from Greater East Asia, and hasten the settlement of China.
Empire of Japan, historical Japanese empire founded on January 3, 1868, when supporters of the emperor Meiji overthrew Yoshinobu, the last Tokugawa shogun. Power would remain nominally vested in the imperial house until the defeat of Japan in World War II and the enactment of Japan’s postwar constitution on May 3, 1947.
The Japanese Empire, also known as the Empire of Japan, was a historical state that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until the end of World War II in 1945. During this period, Japan underwent a rapid process of modernization and imperial expansion, becoming a major world power.
Including Mainland Japan, colonies, occupied territories, and puppet states, the Japanese Empire at its apex was one of the largest empires in history. The total amount of land under Japanese sovereignty reached 8,510,000 km 2 (3,300,000 sq mi) in 1942. [2]
Map of the Japanese Empire in 1936, from Life magazine (April 16, 1945) Japan already presided over various islands in the Pacific as League of Nations mandates: the Carolines, Palau, the Marshall Islands, what are now the Northern Mariana Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia, all of which Japan had inherited from Germany after World ...
Map of the Japanese Empire, 1895. It was issued shortly after the 1895 Japanese invasion of Taiwan and is consequently one of the first Japanese maps to include Taiwan and Korea as provinces of Imperial Japan. Geographicus Rare Antique Maps.
Up until the end of World War II, Japan was a prodigious producer of printed maps and nautical charts. Whether to trace exploration, exercise political control, oversee her vast colonial empire, or execute military operations, maps and charts were a fundamental tool of the imperial state.