Die Geschichte des Kaiserreichs Japan ist weitaus komplexer als ich dachte. Ich habe tagelang daran gearbeitet und viele Quellkarten, Militärberichte und Bücher durchgesehen. Aber ich bin mir sicher, dass ich immer noch etwas falsch gemacht habe.
Feedback und Korrekturen sind willkommen. Die Geschichte ist chaotisch und die Quellen stimmen oft nicht überein.
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Manchukuo’s so weird to me, because I’m pretty sure it’s the only case where a colony was meant to be the industrial heartland.
Attu and Kiska, the Westernmost Aleutian islands belonging to the US (Alaska) are outside the range of this map, and did belong to the Japanese empire in 1942 and 1943.
Maybe other Pacific islands, conquered by Japan, were to the West of the mapped area?
One immediate correction, Japan never controlled the southern coast of Papua New Guinea. The Battle of the Coral Sea stopped their amphibious attempt to take the southern coast/Port Moresby and they instead launched the Kokoda Trail Campaign to try and cross overland but were again defeated there.
That is a good looking map!
East-Timor wasn’t part of the Dutch East Indies
No Kuril islands?
Malaysia only exists in 1963. The correct term prior to that is Malaya (which included Singapore until 1945). And North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei was part of British sphere of influence (not under Dutch East Indies).
China would be a fraction of itself without 🇺🇸
Nice looking map. Though just a couple of corrections:
• Japan controlled the Kuril Islands
• Japan also never controlled the southern part of Papua New Guinea- their defeat at the Kokoda Trail Campaign kinda made sure of that.
But good job on including Timor Leste. That’s a very surprising detail you managed to include: yes, Portuguese Timor was, in fact, invaded and occupied by Japan. Thought it should’ve been noted as a separate entity, not part of the Dutch East Indies
They had to stop after occupying only Manchuria.
Thailand is just cozy.
Maybe push the date back to include Okinawa as an addition since Japan styled itself as an empire even before it was annexed and even until WW2 the people there weren’t exactly seen or treated as equals
And even then it was more our of desperation as the invasion neared
It’s interesting to me that in 1945, the Japanese were still conquering land in South China, even as their empire and the Axis powers in general were collapsing. Correct me if im wrong, but it seems the territory they seized there was larger than all the Pacific islands they had lost up to that point.
love it. idk if japan did take that much of indonesia or papua