Gaihozu: Digital Gaihozu Exhibit

Shinkoku Santosho (清国山東省)

Unknown. (Meiji 27 (1894)). Shinkoku Santosho[map]. 1:200000.

不明 (明治27年). 清国山東省 [map]. 1:200000.

This is one of the oldest Gaihozu at UW Libraries. This is an early example of the Japanese military conducting topographic surveys outside Japan.

Shinkyo, Manchuria (新京, 満州)

Land Survey Department of Imperial Japanese Army. (Showa 8 (1933)) Shinkyo [map]. 1:50000

大日本帝国陸地測量部. 昭和8年新京 [map]. 1:50000.

Shinkyo (新京) was the capital of Manchuria (満州), located in Northeast China between 1932 until 1945.

Heiyo chishizu, Shojo (兵要地誌図, 諸城)

Land Survey Department of Imperial Japanese Army. (Showa 15 (1940)). Heiyo chishizu, Shojo [map]. 1:100000.

参謀本部陸地測量部. (昭和15年). 兵要地誌図, 諸城 [map]. 1:100000.

The Heiyo chishishizu, Shojo (兵要地誌図, 諸城) map displays Japanese military information (in red) overlaid on an existing topographical map. This map was originally created by the Chinese Army and modified by the Japanese Imperial Army. The map is part of a series of Shandong Province (山東省) in East China.

This map is categorized as Military Secret (軍事秘密), level 4 of 6 under the Japanese Imperial Army's map secrecy classification system.

Tainan hokubu (台南北部)

Land Survey Department of Imperial Japanese Army. (Showa 3 (1928)). Tainan hokubu [map]. 1:50000.

大日本帝国陸地測量部. 昭和3年. 台南北部 [map]. 1:50000.

This map was acquired at a store in Tokyo, and it is not a captured map.

Shin Koga Ryuiki-zu (新黄河流域図)

Tada Corps. (Showa 15 (1940)). Shin Koga Ryuiki-zu : Daishinshu [map]. 1:50000.

多田部隊参謀部. (昭和15年). 新黄河流域図:大新集 [map]. 1:50000.

This map shows the Yellow River basin after the Chinese Nationalist Army burst the levee on the river in 1938 to stop the Japanese army's invasion. This map was originally held by the Japanese East Asia Research Institute, or Toa Kenkyujo (東亜研究所).

Red: Flood area confirmed from the base camp site

Blue: Flood area confirmed by aerial survey

1933 Hiroshima (広島( (昭和8年))

Land Survey Department of the Imperial Japanese Army. (Showa 8 (1933)). Hiroshima [map]. 1:50000.

参謀本部陸地測量部. (昭和8年). 広島 [map]. 1:50000.

Japan's collection of military maps included maps from the Japanese mainland, called Naikokuzu (内国図). The UW holds two different sets of Naikokuzu maps. One map set was created before and during the war, and another set was created after the war, under the instruction of the occupying Allied Powers. This map shows a pre-war Hiroshima City. The map is categorized as High-Level Military Secret (軍事極秘), level 5 of 6 on the Imperial Japanese Army's map secrecy scale. "AMS 998618" represents the Army Map Service's map accession number. The stamp on the bottom right of the map indicates the date (January 15, 1947) that the map was transferred to the Library of Congress to be processed through the Army Map Service's Depository Program.

1956 Hiroshima (広島 (昭和31年))

Geographical Survey Institute. (Showa 8 (1956)). Hiroshima [map]. 1:50000.

地理調査所. (昭和31年). 広島 [map]. 1:50000.

Created on the instruction of the Allied Powers occupying Japan, this map shows the post-war reconstruction efforts undertaken by the Allied Powers following the destruction of  Hiroshima's 1945 bombing.