Events at: Auditorium, Asian Centre, 1871 West Mall, Vancouver

2016/17 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies: Postwar Tokyo: Capital of a Ruined Empire

In this talk, Dr. Seiji M. Lippit discusses Postwar Tokyo. The capital of what had once been a massive overseas empire was reduced to ruins by the unrelenting Allied aerial bombardment and now faced occupation by a foreign military power for the first time in the nation’s history.