On the morning of this day in 1939, the USS Astoria steamed into Yokohama harbor with the U.S. ensign at half-staff and a Japanese flag at the fore. She was the last American warship to visit Japan ...
From May to September 1939, the USSR and Japan fought an undeclared war involving over 100,000 troops. It may have altered world history. In the summer of 1939, Soviet and Japanese armies clashed on ...
Key point: Some of Tokyo’s leaders wanted to fight Russia instead of America. However, their failure to win repeated brutal military clashes changed their mind. This is a story of a battle that was, ...
A SENIOR Japanese politician has provoked outrage by claiming that Japan was forced into the Second World War by America and that Japan had helped liberate Asia. Hosei Norota, 72, the defence agency ...
graphic novel in English of comparable depth and scope is Art Spiegelman’s Maus. Originally published in 1988-89, Showa is the first installment in a 4-volume set that will be issued in the US over ...
IT is a long way, geographically, from Munich to Canton; and there is little in common culturally between the old Bavarian capital, with its well-known excellences in music, art, and beer and its new ...
TOKYO, Sept. 20, 1931 (UP) -- Rioting broke out today between Chinese and Japanese on the border of Korea and Manchuria as the government sought a peaceful settlement of military clashes at Mukden and ...
TOKYO, Sept. 20, 1931 (UP) -- Rioting broke out today between Chinese and Japanese on the border of Korea and Manchuria as the government sought a peaceful settlement of military clashes at Mukden and ...
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