Japan's Aggressive Policy in the Asia-Pacific Region (1940-1941)

Coal trucks moving.

Japanese military keeping track of cargo received at the port.

Map of the Pacific theater of military operations.

Map of the Philippine Islands.

Street views of Manila.

View of a lumber yard.

Removal of tree trunks from the jungle on railway platforms.

Processing of Manila hemp for the military needs of Japan.

Delivery of wood on hand-operated rail trucks for loading onto a ship.

A ship being loaded, rails leading to the ship.

Malaysia and the island of Sumatra on the map.

Indonesian landscape.

Extraction of raw materials from tree bark.

View of a quarry for mining.

Transportation of wood by trucks.

View of one of the streets near the port of Singapore.

A ship at the berth in the port of Singapore.

Transportation of cargo to the ship.

Ships in the port being loaded.

A ship in the dock.

Map of the Netherlands Indies (Indonesia).

View of one of the oil fields on the island of Sumatra.

The process of oil production.

A storage facility at an oil refinery, oil tanks.

Indonesians sawing wood.

Cargo being delivered to a ship using a crane.

A ship in the dock.

A ship being loaded at a berth in Singapore.

A ship in a repair dock.

Map of Indonesia.

View of one of the oil fields on the island of Sumatra.

The oil production process.

A storage facility at an oil refinery, oil tanks.

Processing felled timber in Indonesia.

Women with hand brooms at work.

Combat boats in the port of Batavia.

Ship repair.

Map of Australia.

Street views of one of the cities in Australia.

Views of one of the cargo areas in the port (from above).

View of a quarry for mining minerals.

Explosion in a quarry.

A train of mine cars is moving.

Production processes at one of the metallurgical plants.

A shepherd on horseback drives a flock of sheep.

Shearing sheep.

Loading cargo onto ships in the port.

Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka being greeted in Berlin in late March 1941. A motorcade accompanied by motorcyclists heads to the Brandenburg Gate.

The Brandenburg Gate decorated with the flags of the Third Reich and Japan.

The motorcade of the Japanese delegation drives through Berlin.

Matsuoka gets out of the car and walks up the steps accompanied by German diplomats.

Goering and Matsuoka meet.

Hitler greets Matsuoka.

Matsuoka and Hitler come out onto the balcony of a building on Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin.

Matsuoka responds to greetings from Berliners from the balcony, with Hitler standing next to him.

Police hold back a crowd of Berliners and members of the Hitler Youth greeting the Japanese Foreign Minister.

Matsuoka and Hitler on the balcony of a building, with Ribbentrop standing behind them.

Map of Indochina.

Ships of the Japanese fleet at sea.

Officers on the bridge watch the horizon.

A launch approaches a Japanese ship.

The face of a Japanese admiral.

A representative of France boards a Japanese ship.

French and Japanese officers greet each other before negotiations.

Representatives of Vichy France during negotiations on the deployment of Japanese troops in Indochina, September 1940. Japanese ships in Haiphong.

Japanese soldiers disembark a landing craft.

Ammunition and weapons are unloaded from a Japanese ship in the port of Haiphong.

Japanese troops enter Haiphong.

The commander salutes the troops.

A unit of Japanese infantry marches through the jungle.

A road sign indicating the distance to Hanoi.

Japanese troops march on Hanoi.

Japanese troops are engaged in combat.

Vietnamese soldiers of the French colonial forces surrender.

A Japanese general rides past an infantry line.

Japanese sentries at their posts.

Japanese Minister of War Tojo gets out of a car.

Tojo, accompanied by an adjutant, enters the building.

Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka getting out of a car.

Japanese admiral getting out of a car.

Members of the Japanese cabinet posing for a photograph.

Faces of Tojo, Prime Minister Konoe.

Japanese warships on the move, the barrel of one of the main caliber guns.

Japanese planes flying by.

View of part of Pearl Harbor.

View of the bow of a Japanese bomber.

Falling bombs.

The aftermath of the Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, burning and damaged ships.

View of the bay with burning American ships.