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title: 'Objetivo: Tóquio'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-ociaa-objetivo-toquio-portuguese-1939/
description: 'A map of the Pacific and Asia centred on Tokyo, with concentric distance rings and lines between cities, sits under the headline ''Objetivo: Tóquio''.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Objetivo: Tóquio, 1939 US poster: A map of the Pacific and Asia centred on Tokyo, with concentric distance rings and lines](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/us-ociaa-objetivo-toquio-portuguese-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/us-ociaa-objetivo-toquio-portuguese-1939.jpg)

# Objetivo: Tóquio

A map of the Pacific and Asia centred on Tokyo, with concentric distance rings and lines between cities, sits under the headline 'Objetivo: Tóquio'. The text says each US offensive in the Pacific brings the war closer to Japan. The tell is the single framing: only distances to Tokyo and US advance routes are shown, with no Allied losses or costs (card-stacking, closest fit for an otherwise informational map).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
OBJETIVO: TÓQUIO

CADA ofensiva das forças dos Estados Unidos no Pacífico aproxima mais a guerra do próprio Japão e de Tóquio, sua capital, tomado neste mapa como centro geográfico. Os círculos indicam as distâncias até Tóquio. As linhas marcadas entre as cidades principais mostram as distâncias entre pontos fora de uma linha passando pelo centro de projeção.

[imprint:] Publicado pelo Coordenador de Assuntos Interamericanos, Washington, E. U. A.

[Translation: Objective: Tokyo. Every offensive of the United States forces in the Pacific brings the war closer to Japan itself and to Tokyo, its capital, taken on this map as the geographic centre. The circles indicate distances to Tokyo. The lines marked between the main cities show the distances between points off a line passing through the centre of projection.]
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[← Objetivo: Tokío](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-ociaa-objetivo-tokio-1939/) [Rendición Incondicional →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-rendicion-incondicional-spanish-1939/)

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