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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...
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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
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In five meticulously researched essays, Yasuo Sakata examines Japanese migration to the United States from an international and deeply historical perspective.
FOURTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON JAPANESE DIASPORA The Hoover Institution Library & Archives at Stanford University and the Japanese Association for Migration Studies will cohost the Fourth International Workshop on Japanese Diaspora. Dates: Wednesday, September 23, 2026, from 8:45 a.m. to 12:50 p.m. and Thursday, September 24, 2026 from 8:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. All times Pacific Daylight Time (PDT). Format: Presentations on both days will be streamed to an online audience via Zoom. Register To Attend Online Program: Nine selected scholars will present their papers via webinar. Download the abstract and bio details here.
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.
A new monthly video series by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives highlights important historical objects and collections paired with reflections by Hoover’s expert curators, fellows, and other scholars.
The Hoover Institution Library & Archives at Stanford University and the Japanese Association for Migration Studies co-host the Second International Workshop on Japanese Diaspora.
Two Bibles, created by Salvation Army captain Masuo Kitaji while he was in detention camps and now in the Hoover Institution Library & Archives collection, underwent conservation treatment in preparation for an exhibition.
This is a Japanese Diaspora Public Lecture featuring Sheldon Garon, Princeton University.
The Hoover Institution Library & Archives is saddened to learn of the passing of our colleague Eugene Wu. He died earlier this month at the age of 100 near his home in Menlo Park, California. Wu contributed to and presided over the growth of three outstanding East Asian collections at the University of Washington, Stanford, and Harvard. His legacy promises to be an enduring inspiration for librarians, researchers, and students of East Asia for generations to come.
The Hoover Institution Library & Archives presents the Fanning the Flames Speaker Series. This twelfth session is moderated by Kaoru (Kay) Ueda, Curator of the Japanese Diaspora Collection at Hoover. The event will feature a video screening of “A Virtual Exhibition Tour of Fanning the Flames: Propaganda in Modern Japan.” For the first time we will reveal to our virtual audience a view of the physical exhibition, located in the Lou Henry Hoover gallery at Hoover Tower, Stanford University. Dr. Ueda will also be joined by Library & Archives colleagues to talk about the processes involved with developing exhibitions like Fanning the Flames.
Stanford art studio students sought inspiration from the Fanning the Flames exhibition and Hoover collections, exploring archival materials and posters related to propaganda and activism. Their work will become part of the Stanford University Libraries University Archives.
Now closed in the Hoover Tower galleries, the Hoover Institution Library & Archives is pleased to present Fanning the Flames: Propaganda in Modern Japan, which features rare woodblock prints and paper plays.
