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Newsreel footage recounting U.S. Pres. Theodore Roosevelt's mediation of the peaceful...
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In September 1931 the Japanese Imperial Army invaded Manchuria, and refugees fled...
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Learn about the Japanese attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii,...
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In June 1942, one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, U.S. naval airplanes stopped...
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Images
Japanese print depicting the commanders of Matthew C. Perry's (seated, centre) expedition...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-USZC4-10708)
Samurai with sword, c. 1860.
J. Paul Getty Museum (Partial gift from the Wilson Centre for Photography, object no. 2007.26.155), digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program
Tokugawa Yoshinobu.
National Diet Library
Ōkubo Toshimichi.
National Diet Library
Iwakura Tomomi
BBC Hulton Picture Library
Samurai in Armour, hand-coloured albumen silver print by Kusakabe Kimbei,...
J. Paul Getty Museum (object no. 84.XA.700.4.58), digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program
Saigō Takamori, leader of a major revolt against the Meiji government in the 1870s.
National Diet Library
Itagaki Taisuke.
National Diet Library
Ōkuma Shigenobu.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Matsukata Masayoshi.
National Diet Library
The Meiji emperor proclaiming the Meiji Constitution in 1889.
Historia/Shutterstock.com
Japanese expansion in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
There Stands No Enemy Where We Go: Surrender of Pyongyang, a scene from...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959, JP3177a-f, www.metmuseum.org
The Chinese battleship Zhenyuan captured by the Japanese during the Sino-Japanese...
Yamagata Aritomo, c. 1894.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Digital File Number: cph 3c19071)
The Tsushima Strait (at the lower right of the Korean peninsula) was the site of...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Artist's rendition of Japanese torpedo boats making a surprise attack on Port Arthur,...
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Allied armies advancing toward the Boxer forces during the Boxer Rebellion outside...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Digital file no. LC-DIG-jpd-02541)
Japanese troops landing during the Russo-Japanese War.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Aleksey Kuropatkin in his library, 1904/05.
© Photos.com/Thinkstock
Japanese and Russian envoys negotiating the Treaty of Portsmouth at the conclusion...
Prints and Photographs Division/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital. id. ppmsca 08196)
Theodore Roosevelt (center) with peace envoys from Russia and Japan at the signing...
© Photos.com/Jupiterimages
Ito Hirobumi, c. 1904
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Digital File Number: cph 3a41573)
The historical region of Manchuria shown with the boundaries of the modern-day Chinese...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Washington Conference, Washington, D.C., 1921.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Hara Takashi.
National Diet Library
Japanese troops gathering outside Mukden, Manchuria, September 1931.
Heritage Image/AGE fotostock
The Japanese seized Manchuria in 1931 and occupied much of the coast and North China...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Inukai Tsuyoshi.
National Diet Library
Hirohito at his enthronement ceremony, 1926.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-USZC2-724)
Konoe Fumimaro.
National Diet Library
Ford Island in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, as seen from a Japanese aircraft during the...
National Archives, Washington, D.C.
The U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island, Hawaii, was attacked by the Japanese...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Kenny Chmielewski
In World War II Japanese military forces quickly took advantage of their success...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
A U.S. Army Signal Corps map depicting the disposition of U.S. forces in Luzon, Philippines,...
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection, (reproduction number LC-DIG-fsa-8b08336)
U.S. Marines come ashore under Japanese fire on Saipan in 1944, during World War...
U.S. Department of Defense
Aerial view of Asakusa, heavily damaged by the World War II U.S. firebombing raids...
NARA
U.S. Marines battling for control of a ridge near Naha, Okinawa, May 1945.
U.S. Department of Defense
Japanese prisoners of war captured by the U.S. military during World War II, Okinawa,...
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (ARC Identifier 532560)
Total destruction of Hiroshima, Japan, following the dropping of the first atomic...
U.S. Air Force photo
The first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945, in New Mexico as part of the...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Photograph of a woman's skin burned in the pattern of the kimono she was wearing...
National Archives and Records Administration/Department of Defense
Japanese representatives, including Foreign Minister Shigemitsu Mamoru (with walking...
Army Signal Corps. Collection/U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (Image ID: USA C-2719)
Gen. Douglas MacArthur signing the agreement by which Japan surrendered to Allied...
Lt. C. F. Wheeler—Navy/U.S. Department of Defense
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