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News Japan » History: Historian Thomas Conlan receives commendation from Japan’s Foreign Minister

News channel or source: https://www.princeton.edu/news/2026/10/07/historian-thomas-conlan-receives-commendation-japans-foreign-minister

Published on: Wednesday 07 October 2026

Conlan, a professor of East Asian studies and history, has taught at Princeton since 2013. He is an expert on medieval Japanese history with research interests in warfare, political legitimacy and ...

News Japan » History: Why Can’t Japan Solve Historical Perception Issues?

News channel or source: https://thediplomat.com/2025/09/why-cant-japan-solve-historical-perception-issues/

Published on: Monday 22 September 2025

Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese government, on board USS Missouri (BB-63), Sep. 2, 1945. Credit: Army Signal Corps photographer ...

News Japan » History: Japan history

News channel or source: https://thediplomat.com/tag/japan-history/

Published on: Wednesday 18 December 2019

The academic debate over the history of the Asia-Pacific War and Japan’s colonial era has been largely resolved. So why does that history remain so politicized? Japan and South Korea are covering up ...

News Japan » History: Where Students Stumble in Japanese History (3): Understanding Shoen—The Biggest Institutional Maze in Japanese History

News channel or source: https://note.com/apt_camel9834/n/nfe13ceb6d527?hl=en

Published on: Tuesday 20 October 2026

There is a field in Japanese history study for entrance exams that many students find confusing at least once.That is the shoen (manor) system.Early shoen, donated-land shoen, the right of tax ...

News Japan » History: Japanese history

News channel or source: https://www.bu.edu/library/japanese-history/

Published on: Wednesday 03 August 2022

The B.U. Libraries have an excellent collection of both print and electronic resources on the history of Japan. The collection primarily covers the Meiji era (1868) to the present with an emphasis on ...

News Japan » History: Manga and the representation of Japanese history / edited by Roman Rosenbaum

News channel or source: https://www.si.edu/object/manga-and-representation-japanese-history-edited-roman-rosenbaum:siris_sil_1021833

Published on: Saturday 14 June 2025

Introduction: The Representation of Japanese History in Manga / Roman Rosenbaum -- Sabotaging the Rising Sun: Representing History in Tezuka Osamu's Phoenix / Rachael Hutchinson -- Reading Shōwa ...