東亜現勢大地図. [Tōa gensei daichizu]. [Current Situation Map of East Asia].

東京朝日新聞社. [Tōkyō Asahi Shinbunsha].. Showa 13 [1938]. Large colour folding map, scale 1:8000000, 108 x 78cm, two large inset maps along the lower edge. A little faint browning lower edge but overall in very good condition. This large map was published in September 1938, amidst rising tensions between the great powers.

The main map shows East Asia and a part of Southeast Asia, with detailed place names. In the north, Soviet encroachment into Chinese-claimed Mongolia and Tuva is apparent. Alongside other subnational divisions in China, British India and French Indochina, the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in the Soviet Union is marked. The borderlands of China in Yunnan, Guangxi, Tibet and Xinjiang are shaded as under French, British and Soviet influence. Also of note is that what would constitute modern-day Arunachal Pradesh is split between the Chinese provinces of Xizang (Tibet) and Xikang.

The two inset maps show Europe and the world at-large. Curiously, the map of Europe marks the borders of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia and the Ottoman Empire prior to World War I. Perhaps in relation to the ongoing Spanish Civil War, the nations of Europe have also been split into left and right-wing camps. The Soviet Union, Republican Spain, France and Czechoslovakia are the only left-leaning powers. Britain, Switzerland, Turkey, and the Benelux, Baltic and Nordic countries are the only neutral parties. All other states are marked as right-leaning.

Along the top margin, 64 national flags are displayed - the most notable being the Japanese-established Provisional Government of the Republic of China and Mongol United Autonomous Government. The flag of Spain, typically for this period, has been given as the pre-1927 merchant ensign, rather than the flags of either the Republicans or Nationalists. .