A long term pragmatism drives the relationship. Prime Minister Lawrence Wong is heading to Japan in the near future, his ...
A Singaporean historian has spent decades researching Japan's wartime occupation of his country. Lim Shao Bin is driven by personal loss and a belief that remembering history is vital to lasting peace ...
pt. 1. Empire: occupied territories. Korea the colony and the poet Sowŏl / David R. McCann ; Writing the colonial self: Yang Kui's texts of resistance and national identity / Angelina C. Yee ; The ...
The Japanese began to bomb American bases in the Philippines hours after the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor that launched the United States into World War II. By the spring of 1942, Japanese ...
Japan occupied all or part of over 20 countries during World War II. The U.S. and its allies liberated many of the Pacific Islands in hard-fought naval and amphibious battles before ending the war ...
The recent 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender at the end of World War II inspired multiple publications on how Japan remembers its wartime history. However, there has been less said about the ...
Japan's imperial ambitions in Pacific Asia from the 1880s to 1945 were shaped by a web of strategic alliances, racial politics, and great-power rivalries ...
Hong Kong was a key target for the Japanese, but guerilla forces played a crucial role in undermining the invaders as well as aiding in the Allied war effort Ahead of the 80th anniversary of Victory ...