Japanese History
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Kanji Ishiwara: The Forgotten Officer Who Planted the Seeds of World War II
Most histories mark September 1, 1939, as the beginning of World War II, but the path to global conflict was laid years earlier in Manchuria.…
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The Nara Period (710-794): State Formation, Buddhism, and the Structural Limits of Early Imperial Governance in Japan
Introduction The Nara period (710-794) represents the first sustained attempt by the Japanese court to construct a centralized imperial state grounded in codified law, bureaucratic…
