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3 days ago · Kamishibai. A form of propaganda unique to Japan was war themed Kamishibai "paper plays": a street performer uses Emakimono "picture scrolls" to convey the story of the play. Audiences typically included children who would buy candy from the street performer providing his source of income.
3 days ago · On 30 June 2007, Japan's defense minister Fumio Kyūma said the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan by the United States during World War II was an inevitable way to end the war. Kyūma said: "I now have come to accept in my mind that in order to end the war, it could not be helped ( shikata ga nai ) that an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki ...
2 days ago · This brought the US into World War II on the side of the Allies. Japan then successfully invaded the Asian colonies of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, including the Philippines, Malaya, Hong Kong, Singapore, Burma, and the Dutch East Indies. In the early stages of the war, Japan scored victory after victory.
3 days ago · By exploring the entire span of Japan’s colonial project in Korea from the 1870s until the end of the Second World War, almost entirely from the vantage point of the local Japanese settler community, the book not only builds upon several significant works in the past 15 years by Peter Duus, André Schmid, Alexis Dudden, Mark Caprio, and E ...
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4 days ago · The Yasukuni Shrine, located in central Tokyo, honors 14 convicted Class-A Japanese war criminals from World War II. It has long been a source of diplomatic friction for Japan and its neighbors.
2 days ago · Balancing Cultures. Creating temporary collages with his family archive, photographer Jerry Takigawa confronts his family’s generational experiences with racism in America. After the 1941 attacks on Pearl Harbor, tensions between the USA and Japan were fraught as ever, perpetuating an offensive discourse and perception of the Japanese ...
5 days ago · This collection contains high quality digital reproductions of roughly 100 historical maps produced in Japan from the 17th century to the 20th century. The original copies of the maps are held in the East Asian Library at the University of California at Berkeley. The David Rumsey Map Collection has digitized the maps and has made them available ...
