The Conversation

Remembering the second world war’s Burma campaign with the descendants of Japanese fighters on the 80th anniversary of VJ day

Kyoko Murakami, PhD works for the University of Westminster. She is affiliated with the Burma Campaign Society. To mark 80 years since the end of the second world war, a group of ten Japanese people ...
The Diplomat

Japan, World War II, and the Murayama Statement

From left: Japanese Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Abe Toshiko, Japanese Foreign Minister Iwaya Takeshi, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, and Chinese Minister of ...
The National Interest

In 1942, Japan Launched a Second Strike on Pearl Harbor—Sort Of

Ultimately, Operation K achieved none of its goals. No damage was inflicted on Pearl Harbor’s facilities, and the reconnaissance yielded extremely little intelligence due to the cloud cover. The ...
The National Interest

The Post-War US-Japan Relationship Turns 80

Eight decades since the end of the Second World War, the US-Japan alliance continues to evolve beyond its Cold War foundations. On September 2, 1945, on the deck of USS Missouri, Imperial Japan ...
The Conversation

Why Japanese American memories of US internment during the second world war are stirring up protests in 2025

Rachel Pistol has received funding from the British Association for American Studies with the Tuna Canyon Detention Station Coalition for a travelling exhibition in 2026 about Japanese American ...
The Economist

Japan’s wartime history causes contemporary problems

ISHIBA SHIGERU’S time as Japan’s prime minister is coming to an end. His party, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), is in crisis: following the departure of its long-time coalition partner, it risks ...
The Economist

The end of the second world war

THE POST-1945 order is crumbling. Donald Trump, who holds a warped, America-First view of history, trashes the transatlantic alliance formed to keep peace after the second world war. In June he ...