This week: Japan’s empire in Micronesia comes apart under the face of both the miscalculations of military leadership and the…
So far, we’ve talked about how Micronesia came under Japanese rule, but what was Japan’s rule over the region like?…
When World War I began, many among the Japanese leadership were hesistant to take advantage of the opportunity to move…
Japan would seize control of German Micronesia in the fall of 1914, but Japanese interest in the region goes back…
This week, we’re talking about the role of rail in imperial Japan, with a particular focus on the infamous South…
This week, we’re looking at the early decades of Japan’s colonization of Hokkaido, and the means by which the island…
This week, we start a history of the Japanese occupation of Taiwan. How did Japan come to conquer the island,…
This week — what was colonial Korea like? We’ll do a quick overview of 35 years of colonial economic, political,…