Asian Archipelargo
2007
Digitally manipulated map, print on paper
728x1030mm
In this map more than fifteen fragments of
old maps of Asian countries called "Gaihouzu"
were merged together in a shape of western
part of Japan. "Gaihouzu"means
maps of Japanese territory outside Japanese
Archipelago and were made by Japanese army in
the 1930s and 1940s. Many of them
were reprinted from condemned plates made
by Europian powers who had been colonized
these countries. Here, the battle fields invaded
by Japan occupy Japanese lands.