Hoover Institution Acquires The Archives Of Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō
Major topics of the Japan collection include the Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95; pre–World War II domestic affairs; Japanese-sponsored governments in China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia; the post–World War II Allied occupation, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, the US-Japan Security Treaty. Records of the Japanese Communist Party and proceedings of the Imperial Diet, 1890–1946, are available. The Japanese Diaspora collection includes the Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection, the world’s largest open-access full-image digital collection of Japanese newspapers published in North America.
Japanese legation in Korea, 1894–1910
Miscellaneous materials collection by the Hoover Institution East Asia Library, Tokyo Office
Materials relating to Japanese-occupied Manchuria (Manchukuo)
Photograph albums of scenes in Japan, presented to Stanford during her 1902 visit
Japanese imperial army surveys of property seized in China during World War II
US military lawyer involved in drafting Japanese constitution after World War II
Brigadier general, US Army; chief, Psychological Warfare Branch, South West Pacific Area, 1943–45
Chief, public health and welfare section in occupied Japan, 1945–51
US historian and author, Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932–45
Depicts the explosion of atom bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan
US counselor of embassy to Japan, 1937–41; assistant secretary of state staff for Far Eastern affairs, 1944–45
Supreme commander for the Allied Powers in Japan staff, 1945–51
US educator; chairman, United States Education Mission to Japan, 1946
Supreme commander for the Allied Powers in Japan staff, 1945–51
US secondary school teacher in Japan, 1929–35; United States education officer in Japan, 1946–49
Field Director, National Japanese American Student Relocation Council 1942–45
Internment of Japanese Americans during World War II
US senator from California, 1977–1983
Japanese American activities during World War II, 1944–45; Newsletter of Japanese American alumni of Stanford University
Materials related to Japanese emigrants in Brazil, 1965–68
Masuo Kitaji's Bibles provided through the generosity of the Kitaji Family, 1935/1973
Depicts scenes at the proceedings of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, 1947/1948
Kaoru (Kay) Ueda is a research fellow and the curator of the Japanese Diaspora Collections at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. She holds a B.A. from Kwansei Gakuin University, an MBA from University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. from Boston University, and has uniq...
Memories and “Negative History”: How to convey the 3.11 Disasters?
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Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection: Overseas Japanese Newspapers
Following a period of strict isolationism from the West, Japan began a series of modernization efforts, starting in the Meiji Restoration, that transformed the nation...
In five meticulously researched essays, Yasuo Sakata examines Japanese migration to the United States from an international and deeply historical perspective.
Most of the items described in these guides are now available at the East Asia Library at Stanford University or Stanford Auxiliary Libraries (SAL 1 & 2). Please check Stanford's online libraries catalog for exact locations.
Ike, Nobutaka. The Hoover Institution Collection On Japan. Palo Alto, Calif, 1958.
Mote, Frederick W., Japanese-Sponsored Governments In China, 1937-1945: An Annotated Bibliography Compiled From Materials In the Chinese Collection of the Hoover Library. Stanford,: Stanford University Press, 1954.
Nahm, Andrew C. Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1894–1910: A Checklist of Japanese Archives in the Hoover Institution. Stanford University, Calif.: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University, 1959.
Kiyohara, Michiko. China Watching by the Japanese: Reports and Investigations from the First Sino-Japanese War to the Unification of China Under the Communist Party: A Checklist of Holdings In the East Asian Collection, Hoover Institution.Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 1987.