To commemorate VJ Day here are two of our filmed talks from our 2025 short course ‘Britain and the Second World War – a global conflict’.

In these two recorded lectures the developing internal dynamics of Japan leading up to the war is explored by Oleg Benesch, whilst Satona Suzuki explores how economic factors informed Japan’s approach to the Pacific War.

Samurai Nation: Global views of Japan from the 1890s to the Second World War

Dr Oleg Benesch, University of York