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title: Japanese children's booklet map of the Greater East Asia Conference (Japan, 1943)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japan-greater-east-asia-conference-booklet-map-1943/
description: 'Double-page pictorial map: Japan in red at top right, Asian lands as cartoon scenes of Japanese soldiers beside smiling locals with flags.'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Japanese wartime booklet map with caricatured American and British figures, shown as published. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Japanese children's booklet map of the Greater East, 1943 Japan print: Double-page pictorial map](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/japan-greater-east-asia-conference-booklet-map-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/japan-greater-east-asia-conference-booklet-map-1943.jpg)

# Japanese children's booklet map of the Greater East Asia Conference (Japan, 1943)

Double-page pictorial map: Japan in red at top right, Asian lands as cartoon scenes of Japanese soldiers beside smiling locals with flags, and sinking ships under British and American flags; caricatured Western figures glower from the corners. The tell: the whole region is shown welcoming and every Western presence defeated; the first-person 'our Greater East Asia' in the text folds the peoples shown into the Japanese cause, and no occupation or resistance appears.

## Propaganda techniques used in this print

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Full record

Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights

## Text on the object

Original (Japanese) · read from the image, not independently checked

Original (Japanese) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
ニッポン

私タチノダイトウア ヲ、私タチノ手ニカヘサウト、日本ハ立チ上ガリマシタ。ソシテ、ツヨイ日本グンハ、テキ ヲ ダイトウア カラ オヒハラヒマシタ。
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Japan

Japan stood up to take our Greater East Asia back into our hands. And the strong Japanese army drove the enemy out of Greater East Asia.
```

Read from the 740 px image; the small place-name labels on the map (Saigon, Java, Philippines and others) were not transcribed and the right-hand paragraph is only partly crisp, so a few particles may differ from the print. Translation is a literal machine translation by Claude, not checked by a fluent reader.

[← "I've Found the Job Where I Fit Best!"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ive-found-the-job-1943/) [Matchbox label, Japanese wartime propaganda in Malay: "Tentoe dapat kemenangan" (Victory will surely be won), No. 3 (c. 1943) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japanese-java-propaganda-matchbox-1943/)

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