The U.S. State Department Central Classified Files are the definitive source of American diplomatic reporting on political, military, social, and economic developments throughout the world in the twentieth century.
This collection of U.S. State Department Central Classified Files relating to internal and foreign affairs contain a wide range of materials from U.S. diplomats. The link to the archive is: http://go.utlib.ca/cat/12243095
There is essential and unique documentation on a wide variety of topics relating to Japanese internal affairs, including:
- National preparedness
- Rise of Bolshevism and radicalism
- Militarism
- Sino-Japanese war and the home front
- Intellectual trends
- Trade and tariffs
- Social control
- Raw materials acquisition
- Labor development and unrest
- Iron and steel industrial expansion
- Rise of the Zaibatsu
- Emigration
- Disarmament
- Political relations with Manchukuo
- Gold embargo against Japan
- Oil prospecting in Sakhalin
- International Depression
- Japanese military doctrine and Bushido
- Prince Konoe and the War in China
- Patents and trademarks
- Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
- Economic markets in China and Southeast Asia
- Affects of nuclear bombing of Hiroshima
- Establishment of Occupation Government
- SCAP and shadow Japanese government
- International loans and trade credits
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