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Recent controversy focuses on the approval of a history textbook published by the Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform, which placed emphasis on the achievements of pre–World War II Imperial Japan, as well as a reference to the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere with fewer critical comments compared to the other Japanese history ...
The Empire of Japan, [c] also known as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was the Japanese nation-state [d] that existed from the Meiji Restoration on 3 January 1868 until the Constitution of Japan took effect on 3 May 1947. [8] From 1910 to 1945, it included the Japanese archipelago, the Kurils, Karafuto, Korea, and Taiwan.
After achieving victory in the Russo-Japanese War, Japan was ceded southern Sakhalin under the terms of the Treaty of Portsmouth. Japan established its colonial government in 1907, whereupon South Sakhalin was renamed Karafuto Prefecture. Japanese and Korean migrants to the colony developed the fishing, forestry and mining industries.
Japan's Imperial Conspiracy is a nonfiction historical work by David Bergamini.Its subject is the role of Japanese elites in promoting Japanese imperialism and the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere; in particular, it examines the role of Crown Prince and Emperor Hirohito in the execution of Japan's Imperial conquest, and his role in postwar Japanese society.
Facing Japan: Chinese Politics and Japanese Imperialism, 1931-1937 is a non-fiction book by Parks M. Coble, published by Harvard University Press in 1991.. The work discusses how the conflicts between the Empire of Japan and the Republic of China, in the run-up to, or the beginning of, the Second Sino-Japanese War, affected the way the ROC was run.
Before World War II, he went to Japan to protest the Japanese invasion of China with Japanese militants. Toward the end of 1938 he was involved with protests of war cargo heading to Japan along with Chinese and Japanese militants. [59] He would join the United States Military Intelligence Service in the war. [60]
The textbook, published as a trade book in Japan in June 2001, sold six hundred thousand copies by June 2004. [6] Despite commercial success, the book was taken up by only a handful of schools – six schools for disabled children run by the Tokyo and Ehime prefectural government and seven private schools, comprising 0.03% of junior high students in the 2002 school year.
The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945 is a nonfiction history book by John Toland, published by Random House in 1970. [1] It won the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. [2] It was republished by Random House in 2003. [3]