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These collections focus on social, political, and economic change from the Meiji (1868–1911) to post–World War II reconstruction (1945–52) periods in Japan and overseas Japanese communities.
Major topics of the Japan collection include the Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95; pre–World War II domestic affairs; Japanese-sponsored governments in China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia; the post–World War II Allied occupation, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, the US-Japan Security Treaty. Records of the Japanese Communist Party and proceedings of the Imperial Diet, 1890–1946, are available. The Japanese Diaspora collection includes the Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection, the world’s largest open-access full-image digital collection of Japanese newspapers published in North America.
Miscellaneous materials collection by the Hoover Institution East Asia Library, Tokyo Office
Challenging traditional historiography and providing new historical interpretation
Online archive of open-access, full image Japanese American and other overseas Japanese newspapers in Asia and South America.
Japanese legation in Korea, 1894–1910
Miscellaneous materials collection by the Hoover Institution East Asia Library, Tokyo Office
Materials relating to Japanese-occupied Manchuria (Manchukuo)
Photograph albums of scenes in Japan, presented to Stanford during her 1902 visit
Japanese imperial army surveys of property seized in China during World War II
US military lawyer involved in drafting Japanese constitution after World War II
Brigadier general, US Army; chief, Psychological Warfare Branch, South West Pacific Area, 1943–45
Chief, public health and welfare section in occupied Japan, 1945–51
US historian and author, Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932–45
Depicts the explosion of atom bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan
US counselor of embassy to Japan, 1937–41; assistant secretary of state staff for Far Eastern affairs, 1944–45
Supreme commander for the Allied Powers in Japan staff, 1945–51
US educator; chairman, United States Education Mission to Japan, 1946
Supreme commander for the Allied Powers in Japan staff, 1945–51
US secondary school teacher in Japan, 1929–35; United States education officer in Japan, 1946–49
Field Director, National Japanese American Student Relocation Council 1942–45
Internment of Japanese Americans during World War II
US senator from California, 1977–1983
Japanese American activities during World War II, 1944–45; Newsletter of Japanese American alumni of Stanford University
Materials related to Japanese emigrants in Brazil, 1965–68
Masuo Kitaji's Bibles provided through the generosity of the Kitaji Family, 1935/1973
Depicts scenes at the proceedings of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, 1947/1948
Online archive of Japanese American and other overseas Japanese newspapers in Asia and South America.
Kaoru (Kay) Ueda is a research fellow and the curator of the Japanese Diaspora Collections at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. She holds a B.A. from Kwansei Gakuin University, an MBA from University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. from Boston University, and has uniq...
Memories and “Negative History”: How to convey the 3.11 Disasters?
This all-day symposium is a hybrid event in co-sponsorship with Tohuku University. It will take place on September 23, 2023 at Tohoku University. Advance registration is required. Click to learn more and register to attend in-person on online.
Japanese America on the Eve of the Pacific War: An Untold History of the 1930s
Following a period of strict isolationism from the West, Japan began a series of modernization efforts, starting in the Meiji Restoration, that transformed the nation...
In five meticulously researched essays, Yasuo Sakata examines Japanese migration to the United States from an international and deeply historical perspective.
Most of the items described in these guides are now available at the East Asia Library at Stanford University or Stanford Auxiliary Libraries (SAL 1 & 2). Please check Stanford's online libraries catalog for exact locations.
Ike, Nobutaka. The Hoover Institution Collection On Japan. Palo Alto, Calif, 1958.
Mote, Frederick W., Japanese-Sponsored Governments In China, 1937-1945: An Annotated Bibliography Compiled From Materials In the Chinese Collection of the Hoover Library. Stanford,: Stanford University Press, 1954.
Nahm, Andrew C. Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1894–1910: A Checklist of Japanese Archives in the Hoover Institution. Stanford University, Calif.: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University, 1959.
Kiyohara, Michiko. China Watching by the Japanese: Reports and Investigations from the First Sino-Japanese War to the Unification of China Under the Communist Party: A Checklist of Holdings In the East Asian Collection, Hoover Institution.Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 1987.
The Hoover Institution Library & Archives launches a new interactive online exhibition—a website that features digital stories, collection highlights, video clips, interactive maps, and other compelling material on the history of modern Japanese propaganda from its rich holdings.
The Hoover Institution Library & Archives presents the Fanning the Flames Speaker Series. This fourth session is moderated by Matthew Sommer, Bowman Family Professor of History at Stanford University and presented by Alice Tseng, professor of Japanese Art and Architecture at Boston University. The “A Visual Revolution: The Emperor in Popular Prints” and Launch of Online Exhibition Fanning the Flames: Propaganda in Modern Japan event is on Tuesday, October 5, at 4:00 pm PDT.
Hoover Student Fellow, Chaeri Park is a first-year master’s student studying international policy at Stanford, with a concentration in cyber policy and security. Portions of her work will be included in the Fanning the Flames exhibition, which opens in the fall of 2021 and her full report is now available in the Stanford Digital Repository.
The Hoover Institution Library & Archives has acquired the entire private collection of Captain Mitsuo Fuchida, which was generously gifted by the Fuchida family.
Kaoru Ueda is curator of the Japanese Diaspora Collection of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives, where she manages the Japanese Diaspora Initiative and the Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection. Ueda is also the editor of On a Collision Course: The Dawn of Japanese Migration in the Nineteenth Century, a new collection of essays by Yasuo Sakata published by Hoover Institution Press. In this interview, Ueda discusses the history of Japan’s open-door policy to the West, the aspirations of Japanese migrant workers living in the United States, and how these issues impacted US immigration policy.
The Hoover Institution will publish On a Collision Course, a collection of five meticulously researched essays written by Yasuo Sakata about Japanese immigration to the United States from a holistic, international, and deeply historical perspective.
In a new exhibit at the Hoover Tower rotunda, visitors will discover some of the rarest and important treasures of East Asia collected by the Hoover Library & Archives.
This month, Hoover Library & Archives welcomes Kaoru “Kay” Ueda as the first-ever curator for Hoover's Japanese Diaspora Initiative.
The Hoover Archives recently acquired Japanese archival materials relating to a Tokyo-based, allegedly private-funded think tank called the Continental Affairs Research Institute (Tairiku Mondai Kenkyujo). Hoover’s Continental Affairs Research Institute Collection includes correspondence between the Japanese government and the institute and analysis of and intelligence reports on Soviet Russia, China, and Mongolia from the early 1950s to the 1960s.
