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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 ...
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.
Land ruled under Empire of Japan. Japan's Continental Policy refers to a Pan-Asian strategy pursued by Japan, especially the Imperial Japanese Army, between the Meiji Restoration and Japan's expansion during World War II. [1] [2] [3] The policy's major aim was to conquer Japan's neighboring countries such as Korea and China to dominate East ...
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.
Since the Meiji Period, Japan had been a constitutional monarchy. However, the name did not obscure the fact that Japan's form of government was more akin to an aristocratic oligarchy. In World War I, Japan fought alongside the Allied Powers. In 1915, Japan presented their Twenty-One Demands to China. The demands used the war as a pretense for ...
The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War is a 2017 history book by S. C. M. Paine about the Empire of Japan. The Japanese Empire is the most recent publication by Paine, after 2012's The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949. Unlike her previous works, this book focuses chiefly on Japan, whereas her other works had ...
The process of compiling a written history of Japan began in the seventh century. The most important of the early works are the Rikkokushi or six national histories which were written in the 9th century. [23] The strategies for writing history changed over time. The earliest works were created by Imperial edict.