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From the IBDP History guide for exams 2017 page 60
11: Japan (1912–1990)
This section begins with post-Meiji Japan and the reasons for Japan’s failure to successfully establish a
democratic system of parliamentary government. It explores the rise of militarism and extreme nationalism
that led to expansion in Manchuria and China. It also examines the desire to establish a Japanese empire in
East and South-East Asia and the Pacific, known as the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
• The impact of the First World War and the post-war conferences
• Taisho democracy: the growth of liberal values and the two-party system
• Reasons for, and impact of, the rise of militarism and extreme nationalism: increasing influence of the
army in politics; political coups and assassinations
• Invasions of Manchuria (1931) and China (1937), and impact on relations with the West; Three Party/
Tripartite Pact (1940); US embargo (1940)
• Japan and the Pacific War (1941–1945): decision to attack Pearl Harbor; initial successes; reasons for
defeat
• The US occupation (1945–1952): social, political and cultural changes; the reverse course (1950)
• Reasons for Japan’s “economic miracle”; social, cultural and economic impact of globalization
Pure Spirits: Imperial Japanese Justice and Right Wing Terrorists 1878-1936 by Danny Orbach et.al. via Academia edu.
Notes from Pyle and Iriye re. Japan 1910 - 1990 - from students and Ms. Cheney
Old Wikispaces notes re. Iriye from Ms. Cheney
http://www.islandschoolhistory.com/paper-3-japan-1912-1990.html
WWII Propaganda film: Our enemy - The Japanese (Part one of two)
Japanese expansionism before and during WWII (Part One)
Propaganda or documentary? - Check also Herbert Bix's references re. to documentary and a book which propagandised the need for Japan to wage war
East Asia Image Collection Blog
Another excellent Imperial Japan secondary resource - please skip to the years you require - don't OPVL the entire document!
Evil Mickey attacks Japan - pro Japan propaganda film
Die for Japan: Wartime Propaganda Kamishibai - in English
A clip from the film "The Purple Heart" 1944 - Japanese WWII Philosophy
Japan's American Revolution - a collaboration grade 12, 2014
Legacies of the US occupation of Japan - from Cambridge Scholars site
Just who reversed the course? he red purge in higher education during the occupation of Japan
Economic miracle of Japan
NHK A portrait of Postwar Japan Part1, Economic Miracle Shimomura's Theory
"Japan," Domestic Adjustments to Globalization; (ed. Charles E. Morrison and Hadi Soesastro), Tokyo: Japan Center for International Exchange, 1998, pp. 76-102.
Other excellent sources:
Ms. Cheney and past students notes Focus - Akira Iriye
Global Security site - till 1945
The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire Part One of Two - Discovery Channel
Taisho Japan - a student overview
The Truth of WWII - What did Japan fight for?
Yuka's find - manga/anime Hetalia - review
Japan after WWII - American perspective
Japan's War
We had a Project Muse subscription - please access this important book - Thought War: Japanese Imperial Propaganda by Barak Kushner via the library
Another Project Muse (review only) summary "Female students running the Nation" - The Debate over co-education in postwar Japan.
Shinzo Abe addresses US congress (29th of April, 2015) - still does not acknowledge or apologise for the systematic rape, torture and murder carried out by the Japanese imperial forces on innocent civilians throughout Asia, prior to and during WWII. Education of Japanese youth regarding WWII war time atrocities? Doesn't every country have a mandate to educate its youth about its own humiliating and victorious history?
Japanese atrocities during WWII
What Japanese history lessons leave out
What were you taught about WWII - Japanese Redditors
Pearl Harbour was not a kamikaze attack
Quora - insight
Japan's lack of contrition
The history text book issue
Blog re. what Japanese children are taught about WWII
Pacific atrocities
Wikipedia overview of UNIT 731 - bases in China and Tokyo.
American POW's used by Japanese in live experiments
Japanese biomedical experimentation during WWII - Laguardia
2015-16 Pyle chapter summary by students
Meiji Constitution diagram
Constitution of Japan - diagram
Bias in sources - "International Relations and the origins of the Pacific War" by Ko Unoki
Higher Level resource booklet for Japan - Allan Todd's book for China and China/Korea.
Human Rights violations in relation to the WWII Japanese eugenics law.
From Reuters
From The Japan Times
From The Japan Times
American occupation of Japan - via Columbia University
The allied occupation of Japan: 1945-1952 - via pitt.edu.
The allied occupation of Japan - from the Japan Society by Peter Frost
Feminism and the Cold War in the US occupation of Japan 1945-52 - by Mire Koikari
An interesting collection of papers to use for quotes and authentic research:
Political Change During the Allied Occupation of Japan (1945-1952): The Justin Williams Papers in the East Asia Collection, McKeldin Library, University of Maryland
From the University of Colorado - a good overview including information on Japan's "economic miracle" and bubble economy
From the University of Kansas - The American Occupation of Japan: a retrospective view
The US occupation and Japan's new democracy by Ruriko Kumano - excellent sources and easy to read.
From JSTOR - the full and lengthy article is online and focuses on the political effects of the reverse course and the resultant one party politics that has ensued in Japan - the LDP. THE ORIGIN OF ONE PARTY DOMINATION: AMERICA'S REVERSE COURSE AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN JAPAN by YONG WOOK LEE The Journal of East Asian Affairs Vol. 18, No. 2 (Fall/Winter 2004), pp. 371-413
Just who reversed the course? The Red purge in Higher Education during the Occupation of Japan by Hans Martin Kramer - via JSTOR
The US occupation of Japan from 1945 -1952 - from Pearsons UK.
Reinterpreting the Japanese economic miracle - by Robert J. Crawford in the Harvard Business Review
From Lehigh University where Mr. Kralovec studies a Japanese perspective on the economic miracle - Japan’s Economic Miracle: Underlying Factors and Strategies for the Growth By Masahiro Takada
Post War development of the Japanese Economy - from Nagoya University. For a presentation this is text heavy but it has some interesting and relevant information.
An interesting overview from The Active Economist
Lessons from the Japanese Miracle: Building the Foundations for a New Growth Paradigm by Okazaki Tetsuji - a short article projecting into the future of Japan.
Excellent overview and report on the impact of globalisation and The Cold War on Japan - Chapter 6 of a report from the kantei.gp.jp 21st century report - Japan's place in the world
A quick but interesting overview re. impact of globalisation and the Cold war on Japan - The Cold War, Globalization and the Effect on the First World Economies AUGUST 29, 2014 RYAN UNDERWOOD
An interesting article from The Guardian - Rebuilding the World after the Second World War by Margaret MacMillan. She is the warden of St Antony's college and a professor of international history at the University of Oxford. Her books include Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War (2001) and Seize the Hour: When Nixon Met Mao (2006). Her most recent book is The Uses and Abuses of History (2008).
Pure Spirits: Imperial Japanese Justice and Right Wing Terrorists, 1878-1936 by Danny Orbach
What does this say about Japanese war-time ideology? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/may/28/secondworldwar.japan
2019 Student / teacher notes re. last two points of H/L guide
Some recovered noted from Duus, Pyle and Iriye via moi.
Curtis's notes on everything history
2020 HL Japan notes
The Wife of a Spy
2022 resource additions:
https://visualizingcultures.mit.edu/social_protest_japan/index.html
https://visualizingcultures.mit.edu/protest_interwar_japan/index.html
https://visualizingcultures.mit.edu/protest_interwar_japan_02/index.html
A really interesting source regarding Japan in the 1950's from MIT via Ms. Pyke & Munemasa sensei
1960's Japan photo essay from MIT
Visualising cultures - an account from a schoolboy during the bombing of Hiroshima via MIT
Visualising cultures - Tokyo 1928-1940 via MIT
visualizingcultures.mit.edu/tokyo_modern_02/index.html
https://visualizingcultures.mit.edu/tokyo_modern_03/index.html
Another perspective on the "Reverse course" - see article and Ms. Cheney's summary notes
Another perspective about the Japanese "Economic miracle" - see article and Ms. Cheney's summary notes