Japan

David Woodward recounts how, after a voyage from the Baltic of 11,000 miles, the Russian Second Pacific Fleet was dramatically destroyed off the coast of Korea by the Japanese.

Roger Hudson expands on an image of Russian ships destroyed by the Japanese at Port Arthur, 1904.

Japan flexed its muscles and launched a full-scale invasion of China following an incident on July 7th, 1937.

Nagasaki is often immediately associated with the American atomic attack on August 9th, 1945. However, it was also, for over two centuries, the only place in Japan open to foreigners. How were Europeans received there?

The historical roots of the dispute between China and Japan over control of the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands reveal a great deal about the two countries’ current global standing, says Joyman Lee.

The American soldiers who fought their way through the islands of the Pacific during the Second World War encountered fierce Japanese resistance but few local people. That all changed with the invasion of the Mariana Islands, says Matthew Hughes.

A history of the country’s love affair with the cherry blossom.

The head of Japan's Second World War government was executed on Dec 23rd, 1948

Mark Bryant looks at the cartoons published in imperial Japan during the Second World War.

Looking back on the sixtieth anniversary of the surrender of Japan, Rana Mitter finds the political background to the demonstrations in China against Japanese history textbooks are full of complexities.