[Japanese Bride in America]
Told through the voices of an American soldier stationed in Japan and a Japanese woman who he marries in 1947, this film shows how the newlywed couple returns to his hometown of Cleveland and adapts to...
View ArticleU.S. Defeat of Japan in World War II
John David Lewis is a professor of philosophy and politics at Duke University, specializing in military history and foreign policy. In his book [Nothing Less than Victory] he argues that an aggressive...
View ArticleJapan's Decision to Surrender
John Kuehn talked about Japan's decision to surrender to Allied forces in August of 1945. "A Succession of Miracles: Japan's Decision to Surrender" was a portion of "Endgame: August 1945 in Asia and...
View ArticleAmbassador to Japan Nomination Hearing
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing on the nomination of Caroline Kennedy to be U.S. ambassador to Japan. Ms. Kennedy answered questions on trade, nuclear reactor safety, and other...
View ArticleJapan Natural Disaster and Nuclear Plant Crisis, Ambassador Fujisaki
The Japanese ambassador to the U.S.spoke about his country's rebuilding efforts one year after a deadly quake triggered a tsunami and set off a nuclear crisis. Ambassador Fujisaki said Japan is making...
View Article1944 Film [A Challenge to Democracy]
This film documents the living conditions of Japanese Americans held in Internment Camps in Arkansas and Wyoming during World War II. The film also shows the contributions of Japanese soldiers fighting...
View Article[Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II]
John Dower talked about his book, [Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II], published by W.W. Norton and Company. The book tells how U.S. armed forces transformed imperial Japan during its...
View ArticleApril 1946 Film of Hiroshima
This film is a silent, color record of Hiroshima, Japan, from April of 1946. Movie projector sound was added by C-SPAN.
View Article[The Rape of Nanking]
Author Iris Chang spoke about her book, "The Rape of Nanking", which recounts the Japanese occupation of the city in the late 1930s. Nanking served as a training ground of killing for Japanese soldiers...
View ArticleClifton Truman Daniel in Hiroshima
President Truman's eldest grandson, Clifton Truman Daniel, talked about his trip to Japan in August 2012, the first ever for a Truman. He arrived in Hiroshima as the city prepared to mark the...
View Article[Embracing Defeat]
John Dower spoke about his book, [Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II], published by W. W. Norton about the reconstruction of Japan. The book examines how American forces maintained...
View Article[The Last Bomb]
[The Last Bomb] is a 1945 War Department film documenting the final months of the B-29 super fortress air campaign against Japan. It concludes with the August 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and...
View Article1945 Universal Newsreel on Japanese Surrender
This 1945 Universal Newsreel showed the first pictures of the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II. On August 15, 1945, Emperor Hirohito announced the surrender of Japan to the Allies. The...
View Article[Tale of Two Cities]
A film tells about the destruction and death caused by atomic bombs dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, on August 6 and 9, 1945. An eyewitness account by Jesuit priest Father John...
View ArticleHiroshima-Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Exhibit
Peter Kuznick gave a tour of an exhibit marking the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In cooperation with the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb...
View Article[Effects of the Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki]
Author and historian Greg Mitchell discussed a collection of films from the U.S. National Archives documenting the aftermath of the atomic bombs of August, 1945. Some of the films were shot by Japanese...
View Article[Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan]
Herbert Bix talked about his book [Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan], published by HarperCollins. The book describes the enigmatic emperor whose sixty-three-year reign led Japan into the modern...
View ArticleU.S.-Japan Relations
President Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga held a joint news conference in the White House Rose Garden. Both leaders reaffirmed the commitment of partnership and shared values and...
View ArticlePresident Biden Holds News Conference with Japanese Prime Minister
President Biden said the U.S. would intervene militarily if China invades Taiwan. His comments came during a joint news conference with the Japanese prime minister in Tokyo. Other topics included the...
View Article[Know Your Enemy]
This U.S. Army film directed by Frank Capra portrays Japan as a nation determined to rule the world through military conquest. Production began in 1942 but due to several delays and revisions the film...
View ArticleJapanese Perspective on World War II
William Paterson University History Professor Theodore Cook talked about his book, [Japan at War: An Oral History]. He discussed the Japanese perspective on World War II, leading up to the December 7,...
View Article[Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy]
Eri Hotta, former research fellow at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo, talked about her book, [Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy], in which she examines the attack on Pearl...
View ArticlePacific War Turning Point
Historians talked about the turning point in the Pacific theater during World War II. Craig Symonds argued the Battle of Midway was the decisive engagement that shifted momentum in the Allies favor,...
View ArticleTour of Graceland and Memphis
President Bush, Prime Minister Koizumi, and first lady Laura Bush visited Graceland, the home of the late entertainer Elvis Presley, in Memphis, Tennessee. They were shown being welcomed to the mansion...
View Article[Japan Surrenders]
A 1945 "United News" newsreel from the U.S. Office of War Information titled [Japan Surrenders] shows an overview of Japan at war in the Pacific since 1931 through the celebration of Japan's surrender...
View ArticleJapanese Perspective on the Battle of Midway
Author Anthony Tully gave the Japanese perspective on the Battle of Midway. The battle took place June 4-7, 1942, in the Pacific Theater of World War II and resulted in a decisive naval victory for the...
View Article75th Anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings
August 9 marks 75 years since the U.S. dropped a second atomic bomb on Japan, devastating the city of Nagasaki three days after the first attack on Hiroshima. Japanese Emperor Hirohito announced...
View ArticleQ&A with Chris Wallace
"Fox News Sunday" anchor Chris Wallace talked about his book, [Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World], about the creation of the atomic bomb...
View ArticlePresident Biden Meeting with Japanese Prime Minister and South Korean President
Prior to a trilateral meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio and South Korean President Yoon Seok-youl, President Biden praised both South Korea and Japan for their efforts to combat Russia...
View ArticleJapanese Prime Minister Arrival
President Trump greeted Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as he arrived at the White House.
View ArticleTruman and the Pacific War
Richard Thornton talked about President Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. He spoke about the diplomatic relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, and...
View ArticleU.S. Ambassador to Japan Swearing-in Ceremony
Vice President Mike Pence swore in William Hagerty as U.S. ambassador to Japan. The co-founder of private investment firm Hagerty Peterson and Co., Mr. Hagerty was confirmed by the Senate on July 13,...
View ArticleWhite House Daily Briefing
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki held a briefing on President Biden's agenda. She spoke about the recent shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, Indiana, that left eight people dead. She...
View ArticlePresident Trump Luncheon Meeting with South Korean and Japanese Leaders
President Trump announced a new series of sanctions against North Korea. They were intended to enhance the Treasury Department's authorities to target individuals and businesses who provide support to...
View ArticlePresident Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Remarks in Hawaii
President Obama and his Japanese Prime Minister Shizo Abe spoke at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam after visiting the USS Arizona Memorial. Mr. Abe, believed to be the fourth Japanese leader to visit...
View ArticlePresident Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Joint News Conference
President Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe held a joint news conference at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo, one of the Japanese government's two official state guest houses. It was the site of...
View Article[Daughters of the Samurai]
Janice Nimura talked about her book [Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back], in which she recounts five women sent to the United States by the Japanese government in 1871 to...
View ArticlePresident Trump Meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
President Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe posed for photographers before their bilateral meeting in the Oval Office.
View ArticleAmbassadorship Confirmation Hearing
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a confirmation hearing for Nicholas Burns to be ambassador to China, Rahm Emanuel to be ambassador to Japan, and Jonathan Kaplan to be ambassador to...
View ArticleAnti-Japanese Propaganda During World War II
Major Andrew Forney talked about the impact of propaganda on American views of the Japanese during World War II. The class compares anti-Nazi propaganda, which was against a political party rather than...
View ArticleU.S.-Japan Relations
President Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held a joint news conference following a meeting in the Oval Office. They talked about the U.S.-Japan partnership and trade relations. The...
View ArticlePresident Obama Remarks at Hiroshima Peace Memorial
President Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivered remarks following a wreath-laying ceremony at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial. President Obama said the U.S. and Japan had made choices...
View ArticleWhite House Daily Briefing
Classified documents found at President Biden's an office he formerly occupied and his Delaware home dominated reporters' questions for a second day in a row at the daily briefing with the White House...
View ArticleFall of the Japanese Empire
Richard Frank, author of [Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire], spoke about the events leading up to Japan's surrender at the end of World War II. He talked about American and Japanese...
View ArticlePresident Trump Signs U.S.-Japan Trade Deals
President Trump delivered remarks on two U.S.-Japan trade agreements in the Roosevelt Room at the White House. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Japanese Ambassador to the U.S. Shinsuke...
View ArticleJapanese Prime Minister White House Arrival Ceremony
During official arrival ceremonies on the South Lawn, President Obama welcomed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife to the White House as part of a state visit. Ceremonies included a review...
View ArticleU.S.-Japan Relations
President Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held a joint news conference following a meeting to discuss trade policy and global security. Among other issues, the president was asked about...
View ArticleU.S.-Japan Relations
President Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held a joint news conference, during which they spoke about the June 12, 2018, summit with North Korea. President Trump said he would consider...
View ArticleU.S.-Japan Relations
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Defense Secretary James Mattis hosted a bilateral security meeting with Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera and Foreign Minister Taro Kono at the State...
View Article1944 Japanese Invasion of British India
World War II scholar Hiroyuki Shindo explored a key turning point of the war in Asia, a Japanese defeat largely at the hands of British and Indian forces. The fighting took place in eastern British...
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