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Argues that Japan's imperialist history and WWII atrocities, especially the Nanjing Massacre and comfort women coercion, fuel lasting resentment in Asia. It contrasts Japan's incomplete reckoning with Germany's accountability, points to unresolved territorial disputes like the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands, and notes that avoiding full reparations bred economic resentment.
Heisoo Shin details how 14 NGOs fought to register comfort women documents with UNESCO, exposing Japan’s political lobbying that threatened the program’s integrity and risked a perpetrators’ veto over historical truth.
This book documents the Japanese military's wartime sexual slavery of Asian women, the survivors' long silence, and the transnational redress movement that has sought justice and accountability.
The Japanese state orchestrated a systematic sex-slavery apparatus to sustain imperial aggression, treating women as strategic resources while denying responsibility; archival research reveals over 200,000 victims across Asia.
Julie Tang discusses Japan's denial of comfort women atrocities and warns against its remilitarization as a global security threat.
The book documents Japan's Unit 731, a covert biological warfare unit that conducted human experimentation during World War II. Compiling firsthand accounts, it details the program's wartime activities, revealing the atrocities committed and underscoring the historical importance of acknowledging these crimes.
Tsuneishi Keiichi, Japan's leading specialist on biowarfare, explores the history and legacy of Japan's Unit 731 and biological warfare program.
A 95-year-old former member of Japan's Unit 731 confronts online deniers and Japanese government ambiguity about wartime human experiments, sharing his traumatic memories to counter historical revisionism.
Newly released archives from Unit 731's Hailar branch expose how Japanese military disguised biological warfare personnel as conventional infantry, concealing human experimentation and crimes against humanity.
Iris Chang's definitive history recounts the 1937 Japanese massacre of over 300,000 Chinese civilians and soldiers in Nanking, examining the militaristic culture that enabled such brutality and the postwar efforts to suppress its memory, while also highlighting the Westerners who saved nearly 300.
This study analyzes the linguistic strategies used in Japanese high school history textbooks to obscure the perpetrators and severity of the 1937 Nanking Massacre, arguing that 'closed text' constructions prevent students from critically engaging with historical denial.
Investigates the mysterious death of historian Iris Chang, exploring the circumstances surrounding her murder and its implications for the ongoing debate over Japan's wartime responsibilities in China.
Details the atrocities of the Nanjing Massacre, linking Japanese fascism to current struggles in Palestine while analyzing historical denial and international memory.
A historical film centered on the Nanjing Massacre, depicting the atrocities and the resilience of the Chinese people through the lens of a photography studio, based on true events.
Using meticulous records and humanitarian efforts, seven Germans-from John Rabe's safety zone rescuing 250,000 refugees to engineer Karl Guenther sheltering 20,000 at a cement plant-documented Japanese atrocities during the Nanjing Massacre.
Japan's Holocaust comprehensively documents Imperial Japan's mass murder, rape, and economic exploitation across Asia and the Pacific from 1927 to 1945, arguing these atrocities were ordered by Emperor Hirohito and claiming at least thirty million deaths.
This work catalogues Japan's imperial war crimes from the Meiji Restoration through WWII, including aggression against Korea and Asia, forced treaties, plunder, and atrocities, arguing that Japan's failure to confront this history risks repeating it.
A transnational history of Japan's wartime occupation of Java, examining the encounter between Japanese "men of culture" and Indonesian nationalists within the contested ideology of Greater Asianism and its limits.
Mao examines why guerrilla warfare against Japan requires its own strategic framework, arguing that China's size, weakness, and the protracted war necessitate independent operations, base areas, and the gradual development of guerrilla forces into mobile warfare.
China's War of Resistance against Japan will be protracted and end in victory, refuting both defeatist and quick-victory theories. Mao Tse-tung outlines three stages-strategic defensive, stalemate, and counter-offensive-where China progresses while Japan declines, with guerrilla warfare crucial. This analysis shapes China's military strategy and political unity.
The book examines Japanese popular works across media that use fictional narratives of the nation's wartime history as science fiction or 'what-if' entertainment. It argues that these 'war fantasy' narratives often present war as entertainment, potentially distorting historical realities, and identifies counter-narratives that challenge this trend.
Matthew Penney explores the non-fiction work of mangaka (manga artist) and veteran Mizuki Shigeru, who seeks to reconcile images of Japanese as both victims of their own elites and victimizers of others.
Rob Kajiwara's interview highlights Okinawan daily protests against the US-Japan occupation, ignored by the G7, and exposes historical and ongoing US-Japanese fascist crimes, including genocide and oppression, while the title's use of 'Luchu' asserts Okinawa's distinct identity separate from Japan, framing these struggles as part of a broader pattern of erasure.
Discusses a systematic anti-Communist purge during the US occupation of Japan that arbitrarily expelled thousands of labour activists and leftists from government and corporate employment to build an anti-Soviet state aligned with American interests.
The Kokuryukai, or Black Dragon Society, was a Japanese ultranationalist secret society founded in 1901 to promote imperial expansion, espionage, and Pan-Asianist ideology, influencing foreign policy and domestic politics until its dissolution after WWII.
China's 14-year resistance against Japanese aggression, from the 1931 September 18 Incident through the full-scale invasion in 1937, constituted the main Eastern battlefield of the World Anti-Fascist War, tying down the bulk of Japan's military, killing over 1.5 million Japanese troops.
Discusses China's underappreciated role in WWII, the Nanjing massacre, and current US-China relations through the lens of anti-imperialism.
China's 14-year war of resistance was the longest in the World Anti-Fascist War; it inflicted the heaviest losses on Japan. British historian Rana Mitter argues this conflict overturned the notion that the countryside must bow to the city.
A Japanese peace activist condemns Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's remarks on Taiwan as interference in China's internal affairs, urging apology and warning against unconstitutional military expansion.
Japanese militarism, rooted in centuries of samurai rule and reinforced by selective adoption of Prussian models, drove imperial expansion and fascism through institutional military supremacy, aggressive education, and economic plunder.
Warns that Japan's right wing, via 'neo-militarism,' is repeating pre-WWII militarist tactics of deception and expansion, risking disaster again by expanding defense budgets and revising pacifist constraints.
Japan's revision of defense export limits, coupled with Yasukuni offerings, signals remilitarization and a dangerous challenge to the postwar peace order, risking regional stability and an arms race.
The Resist US-Led War Movement condemns the Japanese government's attempted revision of Article 9 of its constitution, which would permit Japan to wage war. As a global network struggling for just peace against US military aggression, the movement warns that scrapping the peace constitution will harm working people across Asia and the Pacific.
At a security forum, a Chinese delegate challenged Japan's defense minister on the lack of apology for WWII atrocities, while Japan deflected by criticizing China's military buildup.
Amid Japan's rightward turn, China warns that Tokyo's push to revise its pacifist constitution and non-nuclear principles could violate international commitments and destabilize the region.
In a rare move for Japanese TV, NHK aired a documentary providing an unusually candid look at Unit 731, the Imperial Japanese Army's covert biological warfare unit. The film reveals evidence of Unit 731's wartime atrocities, including biological warfare experiments, breaking a long-standing taboo in Japan regarding discussion of the unit.
A Japanese maritime aircraft identified itself as the 'Japan Navy' during a radio exchange with Chinese forces, prompting warnings about constitutional violations and highlighting broader concerns regarding Japan's right-wing efforts to revise history and pursue remilitarization.
The culture industry today, operating through video games and animation, has evolved into a sophisticated imperialist tool that plants historical revisionism and remilitarization into popular consciousness, as shown by American franchises like GTA and Call of Duty that normalize hegemonic violence.
Japan's 2026 Defense White Paper signals a dangerous turn toward neo-militarism, drawing lessons from Ukraine and elevating new warfare domains, while echoing pre-WWII expansionism and straining its postwar pacifist identity.
China intensifies rhetorical campaign against Japan's shifting defence posture, aiming to counter Tokyo's narrative and win trust among Asian neighbours, while both nations compete to shape post-war historical memory.
Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi stopped short of pledging to uphold the Three Non-Nuclear Principles, fueling concerns over potential revision of Japan's nuclear policy.
Japan's escalating military buildup, record defense budgets, and weapons exports raise concerns about neo-militarism and nuclear proliferation, threatening regional stability.
Hu Bo argues Manila exaggerates China-U.S.
Japanese PM Takaichi equivocates on the Three Non-Nuclear Principles at Hiroshima and Nagasaki memorials, revealing neo-militarist ambitions and endangering regional stability.
Condemns the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum's proposal to rename the Nanjing Massacre a 'Nanjing Incident,' arguing this revisionist tactic by Japanese right-wing forces distorts historical truth and undermines the post-WWII international order.
The Japanese military's systematic atrocities across Asia-including the Sook Ching Massacre, POW executions, and forced labor-form an undeniable historical record, and Japan must abandon revisionist attempts to whitewash its wartime crimes.
Defends the Tokyo Trials' legal legitimacy against Japanese right-wing revisionism, arguing that denying its verdicts enables militarist revival and undermines post-war peace, urging Japan to uphold historical justice.
Japan's 2026 Defense White Paper and cabinet rhetoric on Taiwan repeat the pre-WWII militarist narrative of manufacturing threats to justify expansion, masking historical atrocities like the Bataan Death March and colonial exploitation in Taiwan.
