He's coming south - it's fight work or perish

He's coming south - safety demands obedience

"It's no use - he's determined to jump" [Stewart West] Pryor

Indie moet vrij! Werkt en vecht ervoor! [The (Dutch East) Indies must be free! Work and Fight for ...

Japan : South coast of Honshu : Gulf of Tokyo or Yedo. Compiled from Japanese Government, and Brit...

[Two mythological Buddhist or Hindu figures, one holding a captive and showing him an image in a magic mirror of a man falling off a boat during a fight]

Will it come to this? The hand of friendship. Australian fat man: "You want work, eh? Why no necessity to co...

New smash at Japs may end lull in South Pacific warfare. Los Angeles times. Monday, April 12, 1943...

People from Japan granted Family work visas for New Zealand - Year ended June 1998–2017, number of people

A new mapp of y Empire of China : with its several provinces or kingdomes together w.th [i.e. with] the adjacent Isles of Iapon or Niphon, Formosa, Hainan, etc. / rendred into English & enlarged w.th the Isles of Iapon by Rich. [i.e. Richard] Blome by his Majesties command ; W. Hollar fecit 1669

The Oriental navigator, or, Directions for sailing to, from, and upon the coasts of, the East-Indies, China, Australia...To the work are prefixed a series of ... tables of the determined positions of all the principle points and places from the British seas to Cape Horn, the Cape of Good Hope, and thence to the islands of Japan, by John Purdy. (Plan of Chatham Island, &c. Whittle & Laurie, London, 1815.)

WWII POW [During the second World War, 27 Australian prisoners of war were tried and executed for doing their patriotic duty by trying to escape from Japanese POW work camps] O'Neill

[Two children wearing sailor outfits are playing with a balloon tethered to a Russian battleship, the balloon has burst revealing the head of a Russian admiral or czar and the battleship has been sunk, the Russian child, standing, pointing to the balloon, is crying, the Japanese child, sitting, is joyfully clapping]