Japanese Collection

Hoover Archives Holdings on Japan

Among the Archives' Japan-relevant holdings are:

• the Payson Treat collection on Asian diplomatic history
  
• a W. D. Tillotson memorandum on Japanese governmental changes between 1855 and 1891
  
• 1894–1910 records of the Japanese legation in Korea
  
• 1906–1921 records on the Japanese army and on the Russian army's purchase of military supplies from Japanese firms
  
• papers on Japan's 1917–1921 intervention in Manchuria and its creation there of the Far Eastern Republic
  
• papers of Chinese official Huang Fu relating to the 1927 incident at Nanking and the Tangku Truce settlement with Japan in 1933
  
• the Freda Utley collection's coverage of sociopolitical conditions in interwar Japan and the Sino-Japanese conflict
  
• the Vladimir Pastuhov collection on the 1931 Manchurian Incident
  
• the Robert Smith collection on political and economic conditions in Manchuria and Mongolia and on Soviet-Japanese relations
  
• various memoirs and other records of World War II
  
• the 1928–1947 papers of Stanley Hornbeck, American diplomat, on U.S. relations with Far East
  
• papers in the Henri Smith-Hutton collection on American-Japanese relations immediately preceding the attack on Pearl Harbor
  
• the G. William Gahagan collection on Japanese war propaganda and U.S. counterpropaganda
  
• the Elbert Thomas collection of transcribed radio broadcasts to the Japanese people relating to the Pacific Theater in World War II
  
• letters in the Thomas W. Grubbs collection on the Tule Lake internment camp
  
• records on the Chinese Nationalist government's confiscation of Japanese property
  
• materials dealing with the explosion of atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  
• papers of the Far Eastern Commission and other records of the Allied occupation of postwar Japan
  
• the Hubert Schenck collection on the Allied occupation and on economic affairs in Japan during 1943–1959
  
• holdings in the William Vatcher collection on U.S., Japanese, and North Korean propaganda and psychological warfare methods during World War II and the Korean War
  
• records of the activities of the U.S. commission responsible for the postwar return of confiscated private German and Japanese property
  
• a massive collection of the 1946–1948 records of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East as well as the records of various other war crimes trials
  
• papers in the Walter Monogan collection on the postwar repatriation of Japanese in Korea
  
• the Joseph Trainor collection on postwar educational reform
  
• the John Emerson collection on postwar Japanese-American relations and postwar Japanese politics
  
• papers in the Milo E. Roswell collection on the drafting of Japan's postwar constitution
  
• historical material in the Hayama Yoshiki collection on the Japanese Communist Party
  
• a microfilm copy of the Kokuritsu Kyoiku Kenkyžjo collection on postwar Japanese educational reform
  
• the memoirs of Japanese prime minister Konoye Fumimaro