Soviet map of Battle of Khalkhin Gol, 20-31 Aug 1939 Map depicting Japanese plans for occupying China immediately before launching the third attack on Changsha, China, 3 Dec 1941 Map showing Japanese offensives in Dec 1941 Map of eastern India and northern Burma showing Japanese occupation and...
Ito san turned a life-long obsession with the wildlife of Japan into his full-time occupation a few years ago, giving up a good job as a sales manager in the process. To see the giant salamanders, we had to go to the city of Gifu, the capital of Gifu Prefecture in the Chubu ...
After the World War II, China recovered its sovereignty and jurisdiction over the islands in compliance of the Cairo Declaration, which states that "the territories stolen by Japan from China should be returned to China." In 1948, an official Chinese map of the South China Sea was released to...
In 1921, he built a German-style map kiln, allowing him to successfully fire kiln-effect pottery (yohen-mono). He went on to study pottery clay as well, successfully recreating the sheen of Momoyama-period Bizen pottery in 1930. In 1939, he also succeeded in firing scarlet-stroke (hida...
Historical Map of East Asia and the Western Pacific (1 August 1894 - First Sino-Japanese War: The intervention of China and Japan in Korea helped bring the Donghak peasant rebellion to an abrupt end, but once it was over, Japan refused to withdraw its tr
The pilgrimage of Fa-hsien is noteworthy for many things, but one feature in particular evident from the map is that the entire homeward leg of the journey was by sea. This reminds us of the sea routes that had been busy since the Greeks and extended all the way from Egypt to China. ...
issei, and some nisei, who had strong affiliation with the Tairiku nippô, maintained their loyalty to the Emperor, and expanded the idea that they were part of the noble Yamato race. Their ideology was a factor that prompted them to support and justify Japan’s invasion of China....
This 1943 Japanese poster shows a Japanese soldier over an encircled map of the Philippines and the text, “Build up the new Philippines.” The Philippines The first concentrated use of Japanese PSYOP occurred just days later when the Japanese bombed the Philippine Islands on December 8 and inv...
Japanese embassy officials met the Japanese chamber of commerce and the Beijing Japanese School on Thursday night to discuss the safety of the Japanese community in China, the embassy said in a statement. Japan's ambassador to Beijing, Kenji Kanasugi, also spoke to China'...