Within a week, Japan's Northern Area Fleet pushed forward and seized the islands of Adak and Kiska, marking the first time that American territory had been occupied since the War of 1812.

As Japan occupied more and more territory, it established the North China Railway Company in collaboration with the local puppet regime. A picture taken in 1939 in Jiangsu Prov. showing the test ...

Shortly after the end of the devastating war, a book on English conversation came out and became the first postwar best-seller in Japan. Published on Sept. 15, 1945, just one month after the ...