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detail of poster JA 6 - The occupation of Port Arthur, 1905

Japan and Japanese Diaspora Collections

These collections focus on social, political, and economic change from the Meiji (1868–1911) to post–World War II reconstruction (1945–52) periods in Japan and overseas Japanese communities.

  • Overview

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    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.

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    detail of poster JA 13 - Showing Japanese and Russian troops at vicinity of Tailenwan, 1905
    Explore the Japanese Modern History Manuscript Collection

    Miscellaneous materials collection by the Hoover Institution East Asia Library, Tokyo Office

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    Researchers at Hoover's East Asia Library
    History of the Collections: Asia

    Challenging traditional historiography and providing new historical interpretation

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    Explore the Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection

    Online archive of open-access, full image Japanese American and other overseas Japanese newspapers in Asia and South America.

    Featured Collections

    Kōshikan Records

    Japanese legation in Korea, 1894–1910

    Japanese Modern History Manuscript Collection

    Miscellaneous materials collection by the Hoover Institution East Asia Library, Tokyo Office

    Daniel K. E. Ching Collection

    Materials relating to Japanese-occupied Manchuria (Manchukuo)

    Jane Lathrop Stanford Miscellaneous Papers

    Photograph albums of scenes in Japan, presented to Stanford during her 1902 visit

    RIKUGUN RECORDS

    Japanese imperial army surveys of property seized in China during World War II

    Milo E. Rowell Papers

    US military lawyer involved in drafting Japanese constitution after World War II

    Bonner Frank Fellers Papers

    Brigadier general, US Army; chief, Psychological Warfare Branch, South West Pacific Area, 1943–45

    Crawford F. Sams Papers

    Chief, public health and welfare section in occupied Japan, 1945–51

    Sheldon H. Harris Papers

    US historian and author, Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932–45

    Harold Melvin Agnew Motion Picture Film

    Depicts the explosion of atom bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan

    Eugene H. Dooman Papers

    US counselor of embassy to Japan, 1937–41; assistant secretary of state staff for Far Eastern affairs, 1944–45

    Joseph C. Trainor Papers

    Supreme commander for the Allied Powers in Japan staff, 1945–51

    George Dinsmore Stoddard Miscellaneous Papers

    US educator; chairman, United States Education Mission to Japan, 1946

    Hubert G. Schenck Papers

    Supreme commander for the Allied Powers in Japan staff, 1945–51

    Ronald S. Anderson Papers

    US secondary school teacher in Japan, 1929–35; United States education officer in Japan, 1946–49

    Thomas Ray Bodine Papers

    Field Director, National Japanese American Student Relocation Council  1942–45

    Karl R. Bendetsen Papers

    Internment of Japanese Americans during World War II

    S.i. Hayakawa Papers

    US senator from California, 1977–1983

    Stanford Nisei Alumni Newsletter Issues

    Japanese American activities during World War II, 1944–45; Newsletter of Japanese American alumni of Stanford University

    John B. Cornell Papers

    Materials related to Japanese emigrants in Brazil, 1965–68

    Masuo Kitaji Annotated And Illustrated Bibles

    Masuo Kitaji's Bibles provided through the generosity of the Kitaji Family, 1935/1973

    Shigemitsu Mamoru Sketch Books

    Depicts scenes at the proceedings of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, 1947/1948

    Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection

    Online archive of Japanese American and other overseas Japanese newspapers in Asia and South America.

    Kaoru Ueda

    Kaoru Ueda

    Curator of Japanese Diaspora Collections / Research Fellow

    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...

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    Additional Guides

    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.

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    New Japanese Materials Reveal Complicated History

    Can Japan and China find a way to reduce the risk of conflict and prevent continuing hostilities that could last decades? No one is certain, but, as Harvard University scholar Ezra Vogel argues, the history between the two countries has overshadowed the present and future of Japan-China relations. That history, as Hoover’s recently acquired increments to the Japanese Modern History Manuscript Collection reveal, was more complicated than people imagine. 

    November 19, 2014
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    Hoover Archives Featured in Japanese Documentary about Atom Bomb Survivor

    A Japanese-language television documentary about a survivor of the atom bomb dropped on Nagasaki includes footage shot at the Hoover Library and Archives. Footage from the Harold Melvin Agnew motion picture film, which depicts atom bombs exploding over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, is at Hoover and featured in the documentary. In addition, there is footage of Rachel Bauer, archival specialist at Hoover, and the shelves of film stored in the Hoover Archives.

    October 10, 2014
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    New Collection Sheds Light on Postwar Okinawa

    The Hoover Institution Archives has acquired the papers of Forrest Ralph Pitts (1924-2014), emeritus professor of the geography department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

    April 02, 2014
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    Valentine Morozoff Papers Open: New Collection on Russian Emigrés in Japan

    One significant consequence of the revolution in Russia in 1917 was the mass exodus of opponents of the Bolshevik regime: the first mass political emigration of the twentieth century. The fate of these émigrés continues to interest historians and other researchers to this day; bearing in mind growing trends in international history and migration studies, it will continue to do so in the future.

    March 20, 2014
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    Japanese Imperial Maps as Sources for East Asian History: A Symposium on the History and Future of the Gaihōzu

    The Hoover Archives, collaborating with cooperating libraries at Stanford, including the Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections and the East Asia Library, are taking part in a symposium on Japanese imperial maps. The symposium will examine the utility of these colonial maps as tools for historical research. Click here for more information.

    October 05, 2011
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    Japanese scholars visit the Hoover Institution

    A group of Japanese scholars supported by the Japanese Ministry of Education visited the Hoover Institution in March to study its unique modern China collection so as to gain a better understanding of twentieth-century China.

    March 09, 2009
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