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Modern Japan |
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American-Japanese Pre- War Relations |
Pecrival Lowell and Lafcadio hearn: Conduits of Japanese Culture (virtual exhibit about 1880's American visitors, whose writings helped stimulate American interest in Japan) (Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale U.) |
President Grant's Diplomatic Mission to Asia (virtual exhibit on Grant's 1877 Asia trip, with images from his visits to Japan and to China) (Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale U.) |
The Imperial Mission, 1917: A Record of the Reception Throughout the United States of the Special Mission Headed by Viscount Ishii (includes note son The Root-Takahira Understanding of 1908 and The Lansing-Ishii Agreement of 1917) (Brigham Young U.) |
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Atomic Warfare |
Hiroshima Archive (historical, cultural, and artistic resources related to the A-bomb) (Mayu Tsuruya, Lewis & Clark C.) |
A-Bomb WWW Museum (includes voice testimonials, articles, images; in Japanese or English) (Mitsuru Ohba & John Benson, Hiroshima, Japan) |
Atomic Bomb: Decision (Hiroshima-Nagasaki) (includes links to declassified documents relating to the decision to drop the bomb) (Gene Dannen) |
BURN!: Toge Sankichi (Hiroshima Artworks by Iri and Toshi Maruki |
Nagasaki Journey (selective Web version of bicoastal exhibit of 100+ pictures of the ruins of Nakasaki taken by Yosuke Yamahata on Aug. 10, 1945) (International Center of Photography, New York; Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco) |
Peace Memorial Museum (includes images of fused, melted, and charred relics of the Hiroshima A-bomb blast) (Hiroshima) |
The Australia-Japan Research Project (articles and images, with focus on 20th-Century militray history) (Australian War Memorial) |
Bill Gordon "Japan's March Towards Militarism" (2000) (overview essay tracing developments from the Meiji Restoration to the 2nd Sino-Japanese War) |
Hirohito and Japan (brief historical outline, with hypertexted terms and images; part of Cornell U.'s Death of the Father: An Anthropology of Closure in Political Authority site)(Linda Fisher and John Dorneman) |
Bill Gordon (Wesleyan U.) "Explanations of Japan’s Imperialistic Expansion, 1894-1910" (2003) (overvioew essay that runs through various theories of imperialism and weighs the value of these to the subject) |
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Japanese-American History |
Japanese American History Archives (museum information, plus selections from photo archives) (JAHA, San Francisco) |
Japanese American National Museum (info, exhibits, and more) (JANM, Los Angeles) |
Suffering Under a Great Injustice: Ansal Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar (part of American Memory) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC) |
Manzanar National Historic Site (National Park Service) |
Nikkei Heritage (exhibits, society info, links, and more) (National Japanese American History Society, San Francisco) |
Constitution of the Empire of Japan, 1889 (e-text, in English) (Center for East Asian Studies, U. California, Los Angeles) |
Nippon in the World (sections on images of cultural life in Japan from the 17th-20th c., on the Vienna international Exposition of 1873, and on documents from Modern Japanese Political History) (National Diet Library, Tokyo) |
Bill Gordon (Wesleyan U.) "The Allied Occupation of Japan" (2000) (overview essay) |
Okinawa: The American Years, 1945-1972 (biographical articles, photos, bibliographies, and more) (Nicholas Evan Sarantakes, Texas A and M U.) |
Poster Exhibition (slide show exhibit of some 2600 political posters of pre-1945 Japan, in English and in Japanese) (Oohara Institute) |
Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period (exhibits of photos from 1860-99) (Nagasaki U. Library) |
Japanese Railway History (historical articles and images) (Japanese Railway and Transport Review) |
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Russo-Japanese War |
Bill Gordon (Wesleyan U.) "Explanations of Japan’s Imperialistic Expansion, 1894-1910" (2003) (overvioew essay that runs through various theories of imperialism and weighs the value of these to the subject) |
Anita Newcombe McGee The Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905 (article "exhibit," with focus on medicine) (National Museum of Health and Medicine, Washington, DC) |
The Russo-Japanese War and American Popular Opinion (within the Meeting of Frontiers website, in English and in Russian) (Library of COngress, Washington, DC) |
The History of the Russian Navy: Port Arthur: Prologue (articles on the Russo-Japanese war, in English) (Russian Navy) |
Laurie Barber Russo-Japanese War (historical essay, with images; part of a larger site on Georgi H. Zhukov) |
The Russo-Japanese War Research Society (numerous articles, documents, and images) |
The Treaty of Portsmouth (1905) (full text of treaty resolving the Russo-Japanese War)(Brigham Young U.) |
Yale University Library: Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905 (description of microfilm project, with historical overview of related documents) (Slavic and East European Collections, Yale U. Library) |
Timothy D. Saxon Anglo-Japanese Naval Cooperation, 1914–1918 (essay)(1999) |
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First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95) |
Bill Gordon (Wesleyan U.) "Explanations of Japan’s Imperialistic Expansion, 1894-1910" (2003) (overvioew essay that runs through various theories of imperialism and weighs the value of these to the subject) |
Shimonoseki Armistice, March 30, 1895 (transcription, in English) (Center for East Asian Studies, U. California, Los Angeles) |
S. Weigelin-Schwiedrzik (U. Heidelberg) and Marilyn A. Levine (Lewis-Clark State C.) Historical Survey: Sino-Japanese War (overview and images, within electronic course on Chinese history) |
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The Second Sino-Japanese War (1931-45) |
Memorial Hall of the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre, 1937-38 (Chiu-yee Cheung, Hong Kong) |
Nanking 1937: Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the Nanking Massacre (virtual exhibit, including historical articles and images) (Princeton U.) |
Leon Poon (U. Maryland) Republican China: Anti-Japanese War (overview article, within larger history of China site) |
Shanghai 1937: Photographs of Karl Kengelbacher (over 100 photos of a four-month period of the war in Shanghai) (Peter Kengelbacher, and Schauwecker's Guide to Japan) |
A Joint Study of the Sino-Japanese War, 1931-1945 (bibliographies, links, documents, conference minutes, description of project seeking to connect scholars) (Asia Center, Harvard U., and Steven Phillips, Towson U.) |
A Joint Study of the Sino-Japanese War, 1931-1945 (bibliographies, links, documents, conference minutes, description of project seeking to connect scholars) (Asia Center, Harvard U., and Steven Phillips, Towson U.) |
Jilly Traganou (U. of Westminster, London) The Fireworks of Edo, or Japan's Early (post?) Modern past (essay tracing the development from Edo (Early Modern) to Tokyo (Modern)) (Architonic, 1997) |
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