Japan History: the Asia-Pacific War: Foreign Office Files for Japan

The database contains full-texts of memoranda, reports, minutes, correspondence, maps, newspaper clippings (including English translations of Japanese language originals), printed leaflets, extracts from books, booklets, etc. These are among three sections:

• Japan, 1919-1930: Japan and Great Power Status
• Japan, 1931-1945: Japanese Imperialism and the War in the Pacific
• Japan, 1946-1952: Occupation of Japan

The files reveal the shifting nature of Anglo-Japanese relations in the first half of the twentieth century. The key themes are:

• The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923
• Trade & Economy
• Sino-Japanese Relations and Manchuria
• Japanese Imperialism
• The War in the Pacific
• The Occupation of Japan