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Mount Fuji from Omiya by Kusakabe Kimbei c. 1890
Japan’s Meiji Restoration
Meiji Constitution promulgation by Toyohara Chikanobu, 1889.
Japan’s Meiji Restoration
Downstream view of Marco Polo Bridge by Thomas Child, 1877. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
The Marco Polo Bridge Incident (1937)
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan
Bombing Hiroshima
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba and Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan.
Who's not to Blame in the South Korea-Japan Spat?
Aerial view of Pearl Harbor, October 1941
Pearl Harbor
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum with a sign announcing the 70th anniversary ceremony.
A Postcard from Hiroshima
Aerial view of Hiroshima before the bombing
Bombing Hiroshima
Shells of burnt-out busses after a suicide bombing
The Terrors of Suicide Bombing
Protesters demonstrate against nuclear power and a storage facility at Rokkasho following the March 2011 disaster at Japan's Fukushima I power plant, the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl (1986).
'The Energy of a Bright Tomorrow': The Rise of Nuclear Power in Japan
Hiroshima atomic bomb crew before the flight of Enola Gay.
Not Everyone Wanted to Bomb Hiroshima
Atomic bomb damage on Hiroshima gas building.
Time to Confront the Ethics of Hiroshima
The "Bridge of No Return" that crosses the Military Demarcation Line between North and South Korea.
Avoiding a Pearl Harbor in Korea
soldiers in Iraq
Can Iraq Learn to Live in Peace?
Undated photo of the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany.
Democracy-Building Will Be Tougher This Time
Emperor Hirohito of Japan in 1971.
Playing Fast and Loose with Historical Analogies
Seen in 1986 with Ford Island in center. The USS Arizona Memorial is the small white dot on the left side above Ford Island.
Pearl Harbor Myth Poses Dangers
Burning ships after the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor.
Not Only Action but Accountability
USS ARIZONA sinking during the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941.
The 1942 Internments and Today’s Security Crisis
Admiral William D. Leahy in 1944.
Hiroshima: Military Voices of Dissent
Woman reading inside a newsstand in the 1950s.
Journalists and the Bomb
General Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1945.
Second-Guessing Hiroshima?
posters of 50 candidates in a Japanese election
Japanese Politics in Flux: Mixing Idealism and Realism