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Scene from the Russo-Japanese War.

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Russo-Japanese War

‘World War Zero’ Russia was already a significant world power in the early 20th century, with vast territories in Eastern Europe and central Asia under its control, and Japan was widely viewed as the dominant force in Asia at the time. Therefore, the war garnered significant global attention and its ramifications were felt long after […]

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HISTORY: The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, World War II

Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The Manhattan Project Even before the outbreak of war in 1939, a group of American scientists—many of them refugees from fascist regimes in Europe—became concerned with nuclear weapons research being conducted in Nazi Germany. In 1940, the U.S. government began funding its own atomic weapons development program, which came under the joint responsibility of the […]

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Steam locomotive at Takanawa, seen during Japan's Meiji Restoration.

Meiji Restoration

Rise of Tokugawa Shogunate During the 1500s, power was decentralized in Japan, which was torn apart by warfare between competing feudal lords (daimyo) for nearly a century. Following his victory in the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, however, Tokugawa Ieyasu swiftly consolidated power from his heavily fortified castle at Edo (now Tokyo). The prestigious but […]

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Japanese troops in Nanking after the city's conquest, 1937.

Nanjing Massacre

Preparing for Invasion During the early years of World War II, and following a bloody victory in Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese turned their attention towards the capital city of Nanjing. Fearful of losing his military forces in battle, China’s Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-Shek ordered the removal of nearly all official Chinese […]

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These Japanese American Linguists Became America’s Secret Weapon During WWII

Nisei members of the Military Intelligence Service were discriminated against by their own country—even as they worked to protect it.

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Japanese Internment Camps

These Photos Show the Harsh Reality of Life in WWII Japanese American Internment Camps

More than 100,000 Japanese Americans were sent to ‘War Relocation Centers’ between 1942 and 1946.

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Why a Top U.S. Official Was Accused of Being a Soviet Spy After Pearl Harbor

Declassified files suggest that before bombs fell in the day of “infamy,” Harry Dexter White helped set the wheels of war in motion. But did he?

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How Japan’s Kamikaze Attacks Went From Last Resort at Pearl Harbor to WWII Strategy

Not until nearly three years after the bombing of Pearl Harbor did Japan adopt suicide aerial attacks as official military strategy.

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1854

Treaty of Kanagawa signed with Japan

Asian History
1945

American bomber drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima

World War II
1945

Soviets declare war on Japan; invade Manchuria

World War II
1946

Japanese war crimes trial begins

World War II
1868

Meiji Restoration begins

Asian History
1970

Japanese author Yukio Mishima dies by suicide

Asian History
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