Japan and World War II

This section will deal with aspects of World War II as it relates to Japan. Some of the material is controversial and some is blatantly racist. Some images will be upsetting, but this is all being presented as a historical examination of war and American attitudes towards the Japanese during World War II. There will be reviews of books, along with a synopsis of many of the books. There will also be references to speeches and various documents.

Some items will be short synopses of articles from the excellent World War II magazine.

Because this section has become so large, I am going to split it up into sub-sections. Each link will take you to a page with other links on it.

This section will not, though, cover the Japanese-American Internment Camps. That material is covered here.

NOTE: Some of the media material contains very racist content. Some of the images could also be upsetting. This material is here for historical purposes only, and is not meant in any way, shape or form to condone the (incredibly stupid) racist concepts contained in some of the materials. This section will have entries on magazines, books, DVDs, and other materials.

100th Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team
Alternative Histories (fiction)
American Industry and the War
American Military in General
American Culture and the War
Atomic Bombs
Bombing and Firebombing of Japan
Comedies
FDR Fireside Chats and other speeches
Hirohito
Interviews
Japanese Attacks on the US Mainland during WWII
Japan during the war
Japanese Military and Militarism
Japanese Prisoner-of-War Camps
Kamikaze
Near the end of the War, and Japan's surrender, and after
Pearl Harbor
Planes
The Planned Invasion of Japan
Posters dealing with World War II and Japan
Propaganda and the Media (both US and Japanese)
Racist Cartoons
Rape of Nanking and other Atrocities
Specific Battles and Battle Areas
Sugihara
Tojo
War Crime Trials and Related Topics
Yamamoto
The Yamato
Short essays on Japan and the war that I have done

Note on Scholarship

There have been some people writing to me, wanting to know what book and what page of that book I found a particular quote or other piece of information in, and could I send that to them. In many parts of my pages I do, indeed, have specific sources listed, but in many I don't.

This is an informal site. I am not doing a thesis or anything like that. I examine literally hundreds of books (as is shown in my reviews) and thousands of pages of documents to find information for this site.

I don't record what exact book or page any particular section of information comes from. My attempt is to examine lots of sources of information and then, holistically, boil these down to basic information that I then put on my website.

The books in my reviews are the primary sources of information, along with the documents. I have obtained my sources from the library, from Half.com, from Ebay, from local bookstores, from Amazon.com, and anywhere else I can find the information I need.

I know people doing reports for school need more specific sources but this site is just not structured to provide those. I would suggest you look over my reviews of books and see which of those might be usable to you, and then get them from your local library.


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