Category: War
One for the military historians
In preparing the Asian History Carnival, a variety of things turned up in my inbox – in between some very tempting deals on pharmaceuticals. Today I recei...
The Return of Uwano Ishinosuke
Japanese World War II military stragglers are still showing up on the newswires six decades after the end of the conflict. This past week, Japan has been capti...
Review of Timothy Brook's Collaboration
In the most recent issue of The Journal of Asian Studies there is a review of Timothy Brook‘s new work Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in ...
Women on the Long March
Natalie Bennett reports that a new oral history investigation of the Long March experience is being published. Over 10 months, travelling mainly by bus and trai...
Asian History Carnival #3
Welcome to the third Asian History Carnival! It’s traditional for blog carnivals to have some kind of internal organization…. Heh.
Wartime Media
Brett at Airminded notes the Japanese National Archives war poster collection including detailed poison gas attack instructions and anti-fire civil defense. The...
1950 Gallup Poll on Chinese Troops in Korea
While trying to track down two Gallup polls from 1947 and 1948 related to the role of the United Nations, I came across an interesting US Gallup poll from Decem...
Revision and Revisionism
Deep in the middle of a roundtable about constitutional revision and neo-nationalism in Japan, comes a bit of discussion of historical revision and popular beli...
Russo-Japanese War Re-visited
I fortuitously caught the last twenty minutes or so of a panel discussion titled “The Meaning of the Russo-Japanese War Today” on NHK Kyoiku Televis...
Theodore Roosevelt and the “Human Bullets”
Nick, one of the contributers here at Frog in a Well, is working on a project related to the Russo-Japanese War (I hope he will be blogging some of his more int...
Frank Capra’s Know Your Enemy: Japan
The (in)famous 1945 Frank Capra propaganda piece Know Your Enemy: Japan can now be ordered very inexpensively as an extra on the $9.99 DVD of John Ford’s ...
Iriye: Two Postwars: 1905 and 1945
Professor Akira Iriye gave a talk at the Reischauer Institute yesterday which, like most Japan Forum events, was open to the public. Iriye has been attending va...