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Librería: Fahrenheit 451 Antiquarian Booksellers, Leiden, Holanda
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Osaka, Manshu Tetsudo Kabushiki Kaisha (South Manchuria Railway Company (Mantetsu)), 1934, 1st edition, 79,(3) pag., with double-page map, 3 photogr. portraits of military men, 192 photogr. ills. by (i.a.) Fuchikami Hakuyo, orig. photo-pict. clothbacked boards, quarto (26,9 x 19,5 cm. (h.xb.)- Boardedges rubbed= Cf. Parr/ WassinkLundgren, The Chinese Photobook p.100-101 (and illustration on page 85). Rare photographic account published by the South Manchuria Railway Company, documenting the Japanese progress in what we now refer to as the Manchurian incident, the conquest and pacification of Manchuria by the Guandong (Kwantung) Army (1931-1933). The Japanese occupation of Manchuria would last till the end of World War II. The South Manchuria Railway Company was founded just after the Russo-Japanese war in 1906 and it operated a wide variety of commercial enterprises as well as social services for Japanese immigrants in Manchuria. 2594 refers to the number of years after the birth of the first Emperor of Japan. It includes important work of the photographer Fuchikami Hakuyo who had been working in the publicity department of the South Manchuria Railway Co. since 1928. No copies in worldcat. The British Museum holds similar photobooks of the years 1935 and 1939.