Access these resources as a member - it's free! Author Eri Hotta talked about Japan in 1941. She discussed Japan's war with China in the years leading up to this time. She described the conditions in ...

Dec. 7—Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor 80 years ago was not the knockout punch the Japanese organizers had hoped for, and one historian says it most likely had just the opposite effect. After ...

THE Japanese people enter a New Year weary of three and a half years of an undeclared war which their army calls holy, and irritated with the sacrifices and deprivations resulting from that struggle.

Long-simmering tensions with the U.S. over expansion in Asia came to a head on December 7, 1941. The U.S.S. Shaw explodes during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. More than ...

As we mark the 80th anniversary of America’s atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it is easy to fixate on its role in precipitating Japan’s unconditional surrender, and thus the end of the ...