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After particularly brutal occupations, how did Japanese troops surrender in mainland Asia at the end of WWII? Were they given safe passage back to Japan, put in POW camps, or face reprisals?

Our History Coursework is change and continuity over 100 years, we need to have relavent historians, primary sources, interpretations and im really stumped for any ideas, idk if you can help but I'm in desperate need

and why did they not attempt a cheap route or did ( don't say they sped up some production by cutting out some stuff in production I already know that

(Books or any other kind of resource.)

History is normally about events so it is normally about the latter. But I want to know more about the context of the events rather than the events themselves. I often feel that my lack of understanding of the context of the events prevents me from understanding the events.

For example if some history text is telling me about the event of how a king increased some taxes. This means very little unless I know a fair bit about what the nature of kingship is at that time and place. Or what the taxation system was like and how it worked in detail.

I am thinking of something like a book which describes what the situation (political, social, economic) was at some particular place at some particular time. It would just describe what it was like then. Without assuming any knowledge on the part of the modern reader. Almost as if it was a travelogue but about a place distant in time as well as space.

A more particular example. There is a lot written about 19th century Europe and this is about which nation (France, Prussia, Russia, Austria, Britain) is going to "dominate" Europe. That word (or a similar one) is used a lot when describing the events. The history is a description of the events that happen with these nations doing things in their attempts to become the "dominant power". But I don't really understand what constitutes exactly being "dominant" in this sense. Or why the nations want this. So the description of the events then seem rather meaningless.

Another particular example. I want to read about the Reformation. But I need to understand what the situation was before the Reformation. Books about the Reformation tend to give the bare minimum information about the pre-existing situation. But I feel like I need to know more about that.

Another example. Often when reading the history of a war it seems as if I am just reading descriptions of masses of men moving in certain ways and killing each other in certain ways. It's as if you could remove the dates and names of places and it could be about anywhere.

The closest to what I want that I have seen so far are some of the books by Fernand Braudel. But they are still rather too wide in scope. How about a book which was focussed on just one specific year.

I think my ideal history book would be mostly static. A 500 page book on the French Revolution would be 496 pages of description of the structure and internal workings of the economy, society and life in France as it was in the early 1780s. And then four pages of what happened 1789. (OK I'm exaggerating here!)

I hope my question makes sense. I appreciate that it might sound stupid or completely and utterly missing the point. (Sometimes that's how it sounds to me.) If it does then please say so.

I don't know if there's a term for the sort of history writing I'm asking about. Something like "descriptive history". Or maybe "static history".

I just got interested in japanese history and wanted to know what would be good and reliable books or sites to start. Though I'm interested in all of it, I'm specially drawn to the Sengoku Period and the Edo Period and Bakumatsu. In English or Spanish please. Thanks in advance for your help.

The two typical answers given are the terrain worked against the Italians and that the Italian Army was just that much of a mess. In my searches for an answer, the first lacks contextualization and the second feels like an answer given but an arm-chair general making uncomfortable assumptions. I was hoping an answer could separate the scholarship from common assumption. Also, would it be too much to address in the answer the strategic considerations the Italians made to attack where they did, and not other places?

A lot of movies depict medevil times having castles with alligator filled moats and drawbridges.. was that really a thing or purely movie fantasy?

I know this post is inherently controversial, but I’ve heard people saying that there aren’t records of Christ’s existence until over forty years after his death.

There are many historians that argue that Jesus wasn’t even a historical figure. I am entirely on the fence.

If there are Roman records of a Jewish uprising while it was going on, please do let me know.

I know Jesus is a morphed name over the centuries, but was his original name unique?

Regular people tend to get names based on relatives/friends/what have you - so names are reused/recycled a lot.

If you met/heard of 'Jesus' was he the first Jesus you would have ever heard of?

I see it quite often in film and fiction where someone will have two swords but I don't know how accurate this is. Usually someone with a short sword and a long sword or something to that effect.

"Βασιλεύς Βασιλέων, Βασιλεύων Βασιλευόντων" translates to "King of King, Ruler of Rulers". I know it was a "motto" of sorts in the empire (during the Paleologos dynasty) but I couldn't find a source if the 4 B's actually stood for that.

(Also, for the longest time, I thought they were crowns and not B's)

Specifically, in context with the current Hungarian community there today. How did it get there, and how big was it at its peak. Were Romanians a majority endemic to Transylvania prior to the Magyar invasion, or was Romanian domination of Transylvania ethnically a later development in the Ottoman wars?

Basically, why does Transylvania have an isolated Hungarian community, and what was relationship between these two peoples during the community's formation and existence.

Feel free to only answer one question, because this probably a very complex answer.