Japan at War, 1914-1952 is a synthetic and interpretive history that highlights the centrality of war to the modern Japanese experience.

Jeremy A. Yellen is a historian and an associate professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War (2019).

1. Introduction 2. The Long World War I, 1914-1922 3. Japan and a World Against War, 1921-1930 4. Between War and Peace, 1931-1937 5. Japan's China War, 1937-1941 6. The War for Greater East Asia, 1941-1945 7. From Empire to Nation-State, 1945-1952 8. Aftermaths