Tag: Japan Records and researchThe First Sino-Japanese War and the ‘Kowshing’ IncidentTuesday 25 July 2023Explore the beginnings of this 1894–95 East Asian war through the lens of records...Records and researchThe British POWs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1945Friday 4 September 2020When one considers the formal conclusion of the war against Japan 75 years ago,...Records and researchSoviet-Japan and the termination of the Second World WarWednesday 2 September 202075 years ago today, in the morning of Sunday 2 September 1945, the Japanese...Records and research‘Only a bold course can save civilisation’: The atomic bomb, Britain and the future of warFriday 28 August 2020On 28 August 1945, the newly elected British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, authored a...Records and researchOperations which never happened (part 2): Operation Zipper and MailfistFriday 14 August 2020In the week leading up to VE Day in 1945, British and Indian forces...Records and researchThe Forgotten Army: West African Troops in Burma, 1945Wednesday 12 August 2020They have been called the ‘Forgotten Army’ – the British Fourteenth Army who, in...Records and researchOperations which didn’t happen (part 1): British participation in the invasion of Japan, 1945Tuesday 11 August 2020Had the atomic bombs not been dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, resulting in the...Records and researchDepicting Japan in British propaganda of the Second World WarMonday 10 August 2020In the first few years of the Second World War, Britons’ knowledge of and...Records and research17th century Japan through English eyesMonday 10 April 2017Scorsese’s Silence lifts the lid on a forgotten aspect of history: when European trade...Records and researchThe atomic bombing of HiroshimaThursday 6 August 2015On the morning of Monday 6 August 1945 – 70 years ago today –...