Inspired by her Taiwanese grandfather, a journalist in Japan has illuminated a little-known university that started out as a grand piece of imperial propaganda celebrating Japan’s subjugation of ...

On May 5, 1943, a Japanese airplane landed at Nichols Field, a former American airfield south of Manila. The airplane carried the most powerful man in Imperial Japan. This man was Prime Minister ...

The fact is he had played a particularly significant role in Japan’s war effort as chief recruiter for Unit 731, the Japanese imperial army’s notorious biological warfare research organization.

On the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, the Japanese emperor visited Ulan Bator for the first time to pay ...

Japan’s Holocaust, published last year, argues that Japanese expansionism between 1927 and 1945 led to atrocities surpassing the death toll caused by Nazi Germany in Europe.The book, which its ...

Naomasa, who was 6 at that time, watched as Imperial Japanese Navy Minister Shigetaro Shimada and other officials, dressed in military uniforms, entered the thatch-roofed house.

A collection of propaganda produced by Leftist ... This unit introduces Japanese political graphics from the 1920s and 1930s selected from the remarkable collection of several thousand posters and ...

Korea was a colony of Japan for 36 years, from 1910 to the end of World War II in 1945. However, there is a distinct lack of information available about this period, especially in English. One ...

Take Japan: Regularly a site for heated battles about textbooks and the best way to grapple with its military and imperial past, it's now a focus of a debate about the appropriateness of re ...