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Tag Archives: World War II
Book Announcement: Japan’s Occupation of Java in the Second World War
Japan’s Occupation of Java in the Second World War Ethan Mark Japan’s Occupation of Java in the Second World War draws upon written and oral Japanese, Indonesian, Dutch and English-language sources to narrate the Japanese occupation of Java as a transnational … Continue reading
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Tagged colonialism, history, Japan, Japanese history, Java, modern history, modern Japan, war, World War II
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Resource: Joseph Berry Keenan Digital Collection
Those researching or just interested in modern Japanese history will find much to explore in Harvard University’s Joseph Berry Keenan Digital Collection. A compilation of manuscript materials and photographs related to the Japanese War Crimes Trial, these works originate from Joseph B. Keenan, … Continue reading
Resource: Dietrich Seckel’s Photo Archive (1936-1942)
Those interested in everyday life in Japan during World War II may be interested in the University of Heidelberg’s digital archive of photographs by German art historian Dietrich Seckel. Credited as one of the leading figures in establishing art historical … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, art, Dietrich Seckel, history, Japan, Japanese architecture, media, modern history, photography, wartime Japan, World War II
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Book Announcement: Down with Traitors: Justice and Nationalism in Wartime China
Via University of Washington Press Down with Traitors: Justice and Nationalism in Wartime China YUN XIA CONTENTS Throughout the War of Resistance against Japan (1931-1945), the Chinese Nationalist government punished collaborators with harsh measures, labeling the enemies from within hanjian … Continue reading
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Tagged China, East Asian History, war, War of Resistance, World War II
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Book Announcement: The Long Defeat: Cultural Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Japan
Akiko Hashimoto, The Long Defeat: Cultural Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Japan Oxford University Press 2015. cloth, paperback, and eBook. ISBN: 9780190239169 (paper) From the publisher: In The Long Defeat, Akiko Hashimoto explores the stakes of war memory in Japan after its … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, books, history, identity, memory, modern, modern history, modern Japan, World War II, WWII
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Internship Opportunity: Paid Digitization Project Internship, Densho
For those working with Japanese American history and digital archiving: Location: Seattle, WA Type: paid Number of internships: 2-3 Deadline: August 12, 2015 Term: Sept. – Dec. 2015 Densho is a Seattle-based non-profit organization started in 1996, with the initial … Continue reading
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Tagged Densho, education, internship, Japanese-Americans, non-profit, oral history, Washington, World War II
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Book Announcement: Constructing the Colonized Land: Entwined Perspectives of East Asia around WWII
Constructing the Colonized Land: Entwined Perspectives of East Asia around WWII Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014 266 pp. ISBN: 9781409428183 (hbk) ISBN:9781409428190 (ebk-PDF) ISBN:9781472404367(ebk-ePUB) Despite the precipitous rise of East Asia as a center of architectural production since the Second … Continue reading
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Tagged books, colonies, colonization, east asia, history, Japan, modern, modern Japan, World War II
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