This text reassesses U.S. and Japanese strategy and offers interpretations of the Pacific War.

Nearly a century of Japanese Imperial rule, from the 1868 Meiji Restoration to the end of WWII, is explored in this sweeping history. Under Emperor Meiji's rule, Imperial Japan established itself as a world power through rapid industrialization and militarization. Aligned with the Entente Powers during the First World War, Japan made a proposal for racial equality at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference-only to be overruled by American President Woodrow...

An account of the campaigns and battles between Japan and the Allied nations in the Pacific and Asia during World War II.

A retelling of a mother's account of what happened to her family during the Flash that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.

Rainbow, a mute yet musically gifted girl, is in an arranged marriage, and her eyes wander. Set against the historical background of China's bloody war with Japan in the 1930s, Rainbow's mystical search for her ideal lover brings death and destruction.

"Kawashima Yoshiko (1906-1948) was an enigmatic Manchu princess whose life mirrored in many ways Japanese-Chinese relations in the first half of the 20th century. She was born into the Qing dynasty in China--the fourteenth daughter Prince Su--but grew up in Japan, after being given up for adoption to promote her father's political causes. Her fame was caught up with the fate of the puppet state set up by the Japanese in Manchuria during the 1930s...

Examines the events leading to the creation and use of the atomic bomb.

A 16-part series that examines the events between the end of World war I in 1918 and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 through newsreels, soundtracks, and archival footage.