DescriptionThis is an original 1937 Japanese wartime photo book, “China Incident Photograph Album – North China Front,” published by Asahi Shimbunsha (Asahi Newspaper Company).Published in December 1937, this volume documents the early stages of the Second Sino-Japanese War in North China through contemporary press photography.Unlike a later historical retrospective, this book was produced while the conflict was still ongoing, making it a fascinating period record of how the war was photographed and presented to Japanese readers at the time.The book contains numerous large-format black-and-white photographs showing Imperial Japanese Army troops, military movements, city streets, fortified walls, gates, historical buildings, temples, monuments, and landscapes across North China.Among the most striking images are Japanese soldiers moving through ancient fortified areas, troops carrying the Japanese flag, military formations entering Chinese cities, and photographs of important cultural and historical sites.The book also includes a large North China campaign map, showing the geographic area of military operations and transportation routes.This allows the viewer to study the photographs not simply as isolated images, but as part of a larger geographical record of the campaign.Because the book was published by Asahi Shimbun, one of Japan’s major newspapers, it also has value as a piece of wartime journalism and visual media history.It provides an opportunity to examine not only what was photographed, but also how the conflict was visually presented to the Japanese public in 1937.This is Volume I, “North China Front,” from the larger Shina Jihen Shashin Zenshu photographic series. Bibliographic references identify this first volume as the North China volume, published in December 1937. An interesting historical item for collectors and researchers of:Imperial Japanese Army militaria, Second Sino-Japanese War history, military photography, wartime journalism, Japanese photobooks, and modern East Asian history.DetailsTitle: China Incident Photograph Album – North China Front
Publisher: Asahi Shimbunsha
Year: 1937
Language: Japanese
Country of Origin: JapanConditionThis is an approximately 90-year-old historical book.There is age-related wear, staining, discoloration, and rubbing.Please carefully examine all photographs for the exact condition and contents. Everything included in the sale is shown in the photographs.This is not a postwar history book.It is a photographic record printed in 1937, while the events it documented were still unfolding.The soldiers, city walls, streets, temples, and landscapes of North China remain preserved here exactly as they were presented to readers nearly nine decades ago.Own a Piece of History.Shipping
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