By 1944, the Philippines was under Japanese occupation, which had begun in 1942 during the Second World War. Japanese forces produced their own maps of the archipelago to support military administration and defense as Allied forces advanced across the Pacific.
This 1944 Japanese map charts the Philippines during the final year of the occupation. Maps produced by the occupying forces served military and administrative purposes, documenting the archipelago from the perspective of the wartime Japanese command. The year 1944 marked the beginning of the Allied campaign to retake the Philippines, making maps from this period documents of a pivotal moment in the war.
This print preserves a record of how the Philippines was mapped under Japanese occupation in 1944.
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