Description

A large tourist pictorial map of Hyogo Prefecture represents the tourist attractions of the region. The in-set map in English lists ways of transportation to Kobe from Osaka, Kyoto, Tokyo, Beppu, Seattle, Minneapolis and Shanghai. The text in Japanese is accompanied with notes in English, probably written for the American soldiers and other employees of the US government, during the American occupation of Japan (1945-1952).

In 1948 Kobe, the capital of Hyogo prefecture, became one of the centers of the Hanshin Education Incident – a series of protests after the closure of the Korean ethnic schools, under the directions of the Government of the United States and the Japanese Ministry of Education, following the concern, that that communists had infiltrated the schools and were attempting to disrupt the U.S. occupation.