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Richard Sims looks at Japanese fascism in the 1930s. |
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Nagasaki is often immediately associated with the American atomic attack on August 9th, 1945. However, it was also, for over two centuries, the only place in Japan open to foreigners. How were Europeans received there? Published in History Today, Volume: 31 Issue: 10, 1981
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The historical roots of the dispute between China and Japan over control of the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands reveal a great deal about the two countries’ current global standing, says Joyman Lee. |
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The American soldiers who fought their way through the islands of the Pacific during the Second World War encountered fierce Japanese resistance but few local people. That all changed with the invasion of the Mariana Islands, says Matthew Hughes. |
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An introduction to a special feature on the history of Japan from the 16th to 20th centuries. Published in
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As springtime arrives in Japan, Matthew Knott looks at the history of the country’s love affair with the cherry blossom.
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The head of Japan's Second World War government was executed on Dec 23, 1948 Published in History Today, Volume: 58 Issue: 12
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Mark Bryant looks at the cartoons published in imperial Japan during the Second World War. |
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Ian Bottomley introduces an exhibition which reflects a special moment in Anglo-Japanese relations in the 17th century, echoed today by a unique loan arrangement between the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds and the Nikko Toshogu Shrine, resting place of the first significant Shogun. |
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Rikki Kersten extols the example of an unlikely hero, the historian Ienaga Saburo, who singlehandedly challenged Japan’s official view of responsibility for its behaviour in the Second World War.
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Richard Cavendish remembers the events of February 8th and 9th, 1904 |
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January 30th, 1902
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The first Christian missionary to the country, Francis Xavier, departed from Japan on November 21st, 1551, having made perhaps some 2,000 converts. |
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Dan van der Vat discusses Jerry Bruckheimer's 2001 film Pearl Harbor and the lessons the US has learned from the attack. |
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Paul Doolan describes the unique 400-year-long trading, intellectual and artistic contacts between the Dutch and the Japanese. |
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Gavan McCormack analyses the attempts by the Japanese nation to deal with its uncomfortable past.
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