Historiography 1918-Today (Japan)

Still largely overlooked in the international scholarship on the First World War, Japan’s involvement in the conflict has been studied by East Asia specialists chiefly from the standpoint of diplomatic and military history. For decades, the bulk of research focused on Japan’s troubled relations with China and the Anglo-Saxon powers and intervention against revolutionary Russia. Since the 1990s, however, greater attention to interdependencies between domestic, international, and transnational issues has led to a significant reappraisal of the Great War as both a watershed in Japanese history and a global event.