Imperial Japan

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    • The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
    • By: John Toland
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 41 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,967 ratings
    • This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire....

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    • Silent War Series, Book 1
    • By: Harry Homewood
    • Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
    • Series: Silent War, Book 1
    • Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 405 ratings
    • She was the USS Mako, as fearless and bold as any submarine that ever prowled the blue Pacific....

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    • Facing History
    • By: Ezra F. Vogel
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 22 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • China and Japan have cultural and political connections that stretch back 1,500 years. But today, their relationship is strained. Ezra Vogel's China and Japan examines key turning points in Sino-Japanese history....

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    • The History and Legacy of the Conflict That Doomed the Chinese Empire and Led to the Rise of Imperial Japan
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Completing the Meiji Restoration that heralded the dawn of a new era for both Japan and Asia, the island nation found itself thrust into the modern world. Flexing its new muscles, the power soon came to blows with the power that for centuries dominated the area politically: China....

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    • By: Mark E. Stille
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • The Imperial Japanese Navy in the Pacific War details the Japanese ships which fought in the Pacific and examines the principles on which they were designed, how they were armed, when and where they were deployed, and how effective they were in battle....

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    • The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
    • By: Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
    • Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
    • Length: 26 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,652 ratings
    • J. Robert Oppenheimer, an iconic figure of the 20th century, was a brilliant physicist who led efforts to build an atomic bomb but later confronted the moral consequences of scientific progress....

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    • A History of Japanese War Crimes During World War II
    • By: Lord Russell of Liverpool
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 370 ratings
    • The war crimes trials at Nuremberg and Tokyo meted out the Allies' official justice; Lord Russell of Liverpool's sensational bestselling books on the Axis' war crimes decided the public's opinion....

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    • The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
    • By: Caroline Elkins
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 17 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • As part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the British colonial government detained nearly the entire population of Kenya's largest ethnic minority, the Kikuyu....

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    • By: William Craig
    • Narrated by: Mark Ashby
    • Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 291 ratings
    • Told from both Japanese and American perspectives, this thrilling account of the final weeks of World War II in the Pacific has been heralded as "virtually faultless"....

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    • History of Imperial Japan's Mass Murder and Rape During World War II
    • By: Bryan Mark Rigg PhD, Andrew Roberts - foreword
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-24
    • Language: English
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    • Japan's Holocaust combines research conducted in over eighteen research facilities in five nations to explore Imperial Japan's atrocities from 1927 to 1945 during its military expansions and reckless campaigns throughout Asia and the Pacific.

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    • A Secret History of Empire and War
    • By: James Bradley
    • Narrated by: Richard Poe
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 254 ratings
    • In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Howard Taft on the largest U.S. diplomatic mission in history....

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    • A Captivating Guide to Modern Japanese History, Starting from the Period of the Tokugawa ShogunateTthrough the Meiji Era and Imperial Japan to the Present (Asian Countries)
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-23
    • Language: English
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    • With their two swords, top-knot haircut, and legendary code of honor, the samurai were the absolute, unquestioned rulers of the country. That all began to change rapidly when the “black ships” of US Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in Tokyo Bay in 1853....

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    • The British Empire and Commonwealth's Epic Struggle Against Imperial Japan, 1941–1945
    • By: Brian E. Walter
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The monumental struggle fought against Imperial Japan in the Asia/Pacific theater during World War II is primarily viewed as an American affair. While the United States did play a dominant role, the British and Commonwealth forces also made major contributions.

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    • One Man's Battle Against Imperial Japan
    • By: Stephen Harding
    • Narrated by: Ian Harding
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 05-03-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • In the early hours of July 5, 1943, the destroyer USS Strong was hit by a Japanese torpedo. The powerful weapon broke the destroyer's back....

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    • The Black Dragon Society and the Dawn of Pan-Asianism
    • By: Emma Zhu, Yuting Angela Xie
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-24
    • Language: English
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    • "Shadows of the Rising Sun" delves into the enigmatic Black Dragon Society, a secretive ultranationalist group in early 20th-century Japan. As ...

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    • The History and Legacy of Imperial Japan’s Nuclear Weapons Program During World War II
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Daniel Houle
    • Length: 1 hr and 56 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-21
    • Language: English
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    • Before the Second World War, military conflicts were fought under orthodox conditions, usually termed “conventional warfare”, but several innovations had significantly changed combat, leading inextricably to the race for a nuclear weapon in the 1930s and 1940s....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Akira Mizubayashi
    • Narrated by: Kurt Kanazawa
    • Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Awarded the Prix des libraires by France’s booksellers, a universal story about music and restoring one’s faith in others amid the aftermath of tremendous loss....

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