Language, Ideology and Japanese History Textbooks
The Japanese history textbook debate is one that keeps making the news, particularly with reference to claims that Japan has never 'apologised properly' for its actions between 1931 and 1945, and that it is one of the few liberal, democratic countries in which textbooks are controlled and authorised by the... More Related posts:

1. Blossoming Silk Against the Rising Sun: U.s. and Japanese Paratroopers at War in the Pacific in World War II (Stackpole Military History) (Stackpole Military History Series)

The Making of the "Rape of Nanking": History and Memory in Japan, China, and the United States (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University)
On December 13, 1937, the Japanese army attacked and captured the Chinese capital city of Nanjing, planting the rising-sun flag atop the city's outer walls. What occurred in the ensuing weeks and months has been the source of a tempestuous debate ever since. It is well known that the Japanese military committed wholesale atrocities after the... More Related posts:

1. Japan on Display: Photography and the Emperor (Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series)
2. Allies Against the Rising Sun: The United States, the British Nations, and the Defeat of Imperial Japan (Modern War Studies)
3. Screening Enlightenment: Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated Japan (The United States in the World)

The Eagle and the Rising Sun: The Japanese-American War, 1941-1943: Pearl Harbor through Guadalcanal
A fresh and provocative account of the greatest naval campaign of the twentieth century.Alan Schom's histories and biographies have been celebrated for their iconoclastic approach and a dramatic focus on extraordinary personalities meeting at the crossroads of history. In this magisterial history of World War II in the Pacific, he... More Related posts:

1. Allies Against the Rising Sun: The United States, the British Nations, and the Defeat of Imperial Japan (Modern War Studies)
2. Blossoming Silk Against the Rising Sun: U.s. and Japanese Paratroopers at War in the Pacific in World War II (Stackpole Military History) (Stackpole Military History Series)
3. The GI War Against Japan: American Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific During World War II

Japanese Wartime Zoo Policy: The Silent Victims of World War II
The Japanese government disposed of “dangerous animals” (not only carnivores but also herbivores, such as elephants) in zoos and circuses during World War II, including those in Japan’s three “colonies”--Korea, Taiwan, and Manchukuo, Japan’s puppet state in current Northeast China. Strangely, the “disposal order” was issued... More Related posts:

1. Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism (Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power)
2. Southeast Asian Minorities in the Wartime Japanese Empire
3. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

Koreans in Japan: Critical Voices from the Margin (Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations)
Koreans in Japan are a barely known minority, not only in the West but also within Japan itself. This pioneering study analyses these relations in the context of the particular conditions and constraints that Koreans face in Japanese society. The contributors cover a wide range of topics, including: the legal and social status of... More Related posts:

1. A Diplomat in Japan: The Inner History of the Critical Years in the Evolution of Japan When the Ports Were Opened and the Monarchy Restored (Stone Bridge Classics)
2. Women of Okinawa: Nine Voices from a Garrison Island

Blossoming Silk Against the Rising Sun: U.s. and Japanese Paratroopers at War in the Pacific in World War II (Stackpole Military History) (Stackpole Military History Series)
From the attack on Pearl Harbor through Japan's surrender, the Americans and Japanese conducted a total of twelve combat parachute drops in the Pacific theatre of World War II. Filling a glaring gap in the historical record of the war, Gene Eric Salecker recounts all twelve drops, highlighting the courage of paratroopers on both sides.... More Related posts:

1. Fist From the Sky: Japan’s Dive-Bomber Ace of World War II (Stackpole Military History Series)
2. The GI War Against Japan: American Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific During World War II
3. Allies Against the Rising Sun: The United States, the British Nations, and the Defeat of Imperial Japan (Modern War Studies)

Operation Broken Reed: Truman's Secret North Korean Spy Mission That Averted World War III
At the height of the Korean War, President Truman launched one of the most important intelligence - gathering operations in history. So valuable were the mission's findings about the North Korean-Soviet-Chinese alliance that it is no stretch to say they prevented World War III. Only one man — sworn to secrecy... More Related posts:

1. The Korean monk-soldiers in the Imjin Wars: An analysis of Buddhist resistance to the Hideyoshi invasion, 1592-1598
2. The Yamato Dynasty: The Secret History of Japan’s Imperial Family

Stalin's Spy: Richard Sorge and the Tokyo Espionage Ring
This is the true story of a remarkable man who pulled off a seemingly impossible espionage mission in Tokyo, before and during World War II. Richard Sorge, born to a Russian mother and a German father, ran a network of Japanese and Europeans under the noses of Japan's dreaded secret police. From 1933 until he was caught in late... More Related posts:

1. Koizumi and Japanese Politics: Reform Strategies and Leadership Style (Routledge/University of Tokyo Series)

Evanescence and Form: An Introduction to Japanese Culture
If we thought that reality were changeable, fragile, and fleeting, would we take life more seriously or less seriously? This book contemplates the notion of hakanasa, the evanescence of all things, as understood by the Japanese. Their lived responses to this idea of impermanence have been various and even contradictory. Asceticism, fatalism, conformism. Hedonism, materialism,... More Related posts:

1. Children of the Atomic Bomb: An American Physician’s Memoir of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and the Marshall Islands (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)
2. Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism (Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power)
3. Dancing with the Dead: Memory, Performance, and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)

Primitive Selves: Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze, 1910-1945 (Colonialisms)
This remarkable book examines the complex history of Japanese colonial and postcolonial interactions with Korea, particularly in matters of cultural policy. E. Taylor Atkins focuses on past and present Japanese fascination with Korean culture as he reassesses colonial anthropology, heritage curation, cultural policy, and Korean performance art in... More No related posts.