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This web exhibition focuses on the Japan’s Army during the Meiji and Taisho periods.
The exhibition does this in order to explore the question of what kind of relations Japan built with the Western powers and its closest neighbors in Asia.
Its specific goal is to shed light on what impact the existence of these former colonies and occupied territories had on Japan's government institutions and bureaucracy.
This web exhibition introduces how people's life was transformed from the Sino-Japanese War to the postwar period by using public records.
You can search many archives for documents on institutions involved in the repatriation of demobilized army and navy personnel deployed around the world at the end of the Pacific War.