This map was drawn by Howard Burke and published by the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper in 1937, two years before...
Maps of Japan (18 maps)
Two ways to reach Japan, one may take a decade (1943)
This map was drawn by Howard Burke and published by the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper in 1943, in the context...
Population density of Japan (2022)
This illustration, created by Terence Teo, represents Japan's population density on a three-dimensional map. To do this, ...
American map of Iwo Jima (1944)
This map of the island of Iwo Jima, Japan, was drawn up by the US Army in 1944 during the...
Rain of Steel: the bombing of Japan during World War II (2026)
This infographic, created by Hiram Hsu, an American cartographer of Japanese descent, was published in 2026. It won the category of the...
Missionary map of Japan and Taiwan (1904)
This map, compiled by Henry Mohr Landis, was published by the Methodist Publishing House in Tokyo in 1904 as a tool…
The Imperial Powers of the Pacific Ocean (1939)
This map originates from an educational map used by the History Department of the Military Academy of...
Tokyo becomes a battlefield (1945)
This map was created by the United States and released alongside the bombing of Tokyo on the night of 9...
Burma, the key to Japan's defeat (1943)
This map was drawn by Howard Burke and published by the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper in 1943, in the context...
Spread of fires following the Kantō earthquake (1923)
This map was published by Nihon Tōkei Fukyūkai in 1930 as part of a study for the reconstruction of...
Japanese products travelling around the world (1934)
This map, published by Kabushiki-gaisha Chūōkōron-sha, shows Japan's trade relations in 1934. Kabushiki-gaisha Chūōkōron-sha was a...
Japan, the target (1942)
This map was drawn by the American illustrator Ernest Dudley Chase and published under his own imprint in 1942,...
Proposal for the partition of Japan (1945)
This map represents the proposal that was on the table regarding the possible partition of Japan at the end of the...
Japan and Russia will divide China (1940)
This map was drawn by Howard Burke and published by the Milwaukee Sentinel newspaper in April 1940, in the context...
Japan after the First World War (1919)
This propaganda map was published in Japan after the First World War to commemorate the successes...
The Shikoku Way (2008)
This map, created by Lencer for Wikimedia Commons in 2008, shows the Shikoku pilgrimage route in Japan. The Way of...
The Pacific, an area of vital importance to Japan and the United States (1942)
This map was drawn by Howard Burke and published by the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper in November 1942, in the context...
Dutch colonies in danger (1940)
This map was drawn by Howard Burke and published by the San Francisco Examiner newspaper in October 1940, in the context...
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