Asia Pacific War, ca. 1931-1945

Here are entered works on the scholarship related to the military conflicts involving Japan in the Pacific Area in the early to mid-20th century.

found: Work cat: The Asia Pacific War, 2023:CIP galley (The timespan 1931–1945 is derived from the date of Japan’s invasion of Manchuria to the end of WWII. Japan’s Pearl Harbor attack in 1941 was part of the Asia Pacific War) (DLC)2023001778

found: Email from Cameron Penwell, Library of Congress, February 23, 2023(The term “Asia-Pacific War” (and its Japanese analogue, Ajia Taiheiyō Sensō アジア・太平洋戦争) has appeared in scholarship in both English and Japanese over the last 20-30 years; this subject heading reflect[s] a trend to conceive of the military conflicts involving Japan during this 15-year span in a more expansive way. For Japan and the countries invaded by it, the nature of Japanese empire was multivocal and interconnected. While the Pacific Theater was indeed important, the “Asia” side of the equation includes the USSR’s conflict with Japan in the Russian Far East, the Sino-Japanese War, British conflict with Japan in the China-Burma-India Theater, and ethnic Korea and Taiwanese residents of Imperial Japan pressed into military service on all these fronts. “Asia-Pacific War” carries its own nuances and points to a different way of conceptualizing the war/wars of 1931-1945)

found: Perilous Memories: The Asia-Pacific War(s)(work discusses the plural nature of the Asia Pacific War and its constituent conflicts, which covered an extremely broad area that included Japan, Japanese colonies, and sovereign countries invaded by Japan (including those governed as colonies of European countries or the United States)) (DLC)00027441

found: Forced Prostitution in Times of War and Peace, 2007:page 278 (Japan's Asia-Pacific War, covering most of Asia and the Pacific region, began with its 1931 invasion of China, merged with World War II, and ended in 1945)

found: Defamiliarizing Japan’s Asia-Pacific War, 2019:page 14, etc. (Rejecting the Eurocentric view of the war as limited to the Pacific theater between 1941 and 1945, their geographical and temporal coverage of the conflict includes the Asia-Pacific region throughout the Fifteen Years War (1931–1945) era; The term “Japan’s Asia-Pacific War” refers to the war that Japan fought against China and the Western powers in the 1930s and 1940s. It is also known as the Pacific War, the Fifteen- Year War, or the Eurasian-Pacific War. The Chinese refer to it as the War of Resistance; the Japanese referred to it as the Greater East Asia War; The conflict is counted as beginning with Japan’s attack on China in 1937 or, if the term “Fifteen-Year War” is preferred, by Japan’s expansion in Manchuria beginning in 1931; The term “Eurasian-Pacific War” recalls the significant role the Soviet Union played in the conflict)

Here are entered works on the scholarship related to the military conflicts involving Japan in the Pacific Area in the early to mid-20th century.