EAST 11:4

This image is from 南方の據点臺湾:写真報道 (Taiwan─Stronghold of the South: A Photo Report), an introduction to Taiwan mainly through photography, published by Asahi Shimbun in 1944, a year before the collapse of the Japanese Empire. This particular image bore a caption calling the island "the center of the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere." Special thanks to Lin-yi Tseng for helping locate the source of the image.

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