Name: VJ Day Memorial
Start: 2025-11-07T17:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-07T18:30:00+00:00
Location: Malvern Theatres

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Event Description

Join Simon Sole for a special evening of Analysis History explaining how Japan went from being a close ally in WW1 to a bitter enemy, showcasing what it was like for soldiers on all sides and what the making of VJ day entailed.

The evening will take audiences to 1868 where Japan was encouraged by western powers, but especially the British, to modernise. In World War 1 Japan was a close British ally, built ships for the Royal Navy and stationed a fleet of Japanese destroyers in the Mediterranean. Japanese Imperial Navy war graves remain in Portland, Dorset, which was their base in 1917. Nevertheless, by 1941 Japan was a bitter enemy to Britain. This resulted in an intense battle at Imphal/Kohima despite being thousands of miles away from each country. How and why did this happen? Was the Japanese soldier truly different as is often asserted? The production explains why this was a very real but also temporary aberration since Britain and Japan are once again close allies.

Simon Sole is an historian and for 20 years was a professional geopolitical analyst. He has travelled and filmed extensively in Japan, India and Myanmar (formerly Burma). His father fought at the Battle of Imphal 1944, and he is a regular speaker on the topic. He lives here in Malvern and chairs the U3A military history group.

This highly illustrated talk includes footage from the Imphal battlefield, India as well as highlighting Japan and its soldiers through a never-before-seen interview with a Japanese veteran who fought at Imphal, as well as a range of remarkable art commissioned to illustrate the production.

Running time: 90mins