This summer it is the anniversary of VJ Day.

This day tends not to have the fanfare of VE Day, despite being of real significance to all those who had been engaged with fighting in the Pacific area. A significant reason for that is the nature of the end of the fighting in that theatre – that is, the dropping of the atomic bomb. However, it is just as important to acknowledge and reflect on the events surrounding the conflict with Japan as it is with Nazi Germany.

Therefore, to commemorate VJ Day we have brought you two key talks and seminars that cover Japan from our recent short course on Britain and the Second World War – a global conflict, along with a number of other articles and podcasts that will help to illuminate this key area of the Second World War.

• Recorded lecture: Global Views of Japan from the 1890s to the Second World War (available until the end of September)
• Recorded lecture: Economic intelligence and Japan's road to the Pacific War (available until the end of September)
• Medlicott Lecture 2021 - Rana Mitter: How new is Asia's 'new era'? (open access)
• Article from The Historian - Echoes of Tsushima
• Article from The Historian - From Norwich to Nara
• Article from The Historian - The Fall of Singapore 1942
• Podcast - The significance of atomic and nuclear weapons (open access until the end of September)
• Podcast - The Meiji Restoration
• Podcast - Post-War Japan