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  • Japan in the 1960s

    Ten Years of Turning Points

    Edited by Robert D. Eldridge, Jason M. Morgan ...
    Series series Inside East Asia
    Eldridge and Morgan set a new paradigm for East Asian contemporary historiography by viewing the decade of the 1960s as hermeneutically powerful. From street battles over Japan’s security treaty with the United States, to a peace treaty with the former Japanese territory of South Korea, to Japan’s hosting the 1964 Summer Olympics, the 1960s in Japan was a decade of turning points.This book is the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Meiji Japanese Who Made Modern Taiwan

    by Toshio Watanabe ...
    Translated by Robert D. Eldridge ...
    The Meji Japanese Who Made Modern Taiwan describes the story of Japan's involvement and administration of Taiwan in the pre-war era, with a focus on the period from 1895, when Taiwan was made a part of the Japanese Empire, to 1945, when the Pacific War ended. It introduces the policies pursued and equally important, the personalities, philosophies, and ambitions of the administrators, engineers, ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Megaquake

    How Japan and the World Should Respond

    by TETSUO TAKASHIMA ...
    Translated by ROBERT D. ELDRIDGE ...
    In March 2011 a magnitude 9 earthquake struck off the eastern coast of northern Japan, triggering a massive tsunami and damaging a nearby nuclear reactor. Nearly twenty thousand people were killed or went missing, and many areas have yet to rebuild. Megaquake: How Japan and the World Should Respond, by the prolific and award-winning writer Tetsuo Takashima five years before this disaster, appears ... Read more

    $27.95 USD

  • Japan's Backroom Politics

    Factions in a Multiparty Age

    by Robert D. Eldridge, Watanabe Tsuneo ...
    Series series New Studies in Modern Japan
    Japan’s Backroom Politics is the translation of a classic study of the rough and tumble of Japanese politics and conservative party factions in the first two decades of postwar Japan. The original book, published in 1967, was written by the preeminent political writer at the time, Watanabe Tsuneo, who later became the controversial owner of the Yomiuri Shimbun. The book was written when a ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Changing Security Policies in Postwar Japan

    The Political Biography of Japanese Defense Minister Sakata Michita

    by Sase Masamori ...
    Translated by Robert D. Eldridge, Graham B. Leonard ...
    This book is the English translation of a recent biography of Sakata Michita, one of Japan’s leading, yet unassuming, politicians in the postwar era, who was even considered a serious contender for the premiership. While he did not become prime minister himself, he did serve as Justice Minister, Education Minister, Welfare Minister, Defense Minister, and Speaker of the House of Representatives. ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Japan as an Immigration Nation

    Demographic Change, Economic Necessity, and the Human Community Concept

    by Hidenori Sakanaka ...
    Translated by Robert D. Eldridge, Graham B. Leonard ...
    This book proposes a solution to three interrelated problems facing Japan: the rapidly declining population, a decrease in working age adults, and a lack of social and economic vitality. Hidenori Sakanaka, the former director of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau, proposes that Japan accept ten million immigrants, including refugees, over the next fifty years, and articulates the benefits of ... Read more

    $34.09 USD

  • The Origins of the Bilateral Okinawa Problem

    Okinawa in Postwar US-Japan Relations, 1945-1952

    by Robert D. Eldridge ...
    Series series East Asia
    Using a multi-national and multi-archival approach to this diplomatic history study, the author examines comprehensively and in great detail for the first time the origins of the so-called Okinawa Problem. Also inlcludes four maps. ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Prime Ministers of Postwar Japan, 1945–1995

    Their Lives and Times

    Translated by Robert D. Eldridge ...
    by Akira Amakawa, Haruhiro Fukui, Fukunaga Fumio, Sumio Hatano, Takeshi Igarashi, Takenori Inoki, Makoto Iokibe, Shinichi Kitaoka, Ikuo Kume, Atsushi Kusano0, Hiroshi Masuda1, Takashi Mikuriya2, Michio Muramatsu3, Takafusa Nakamura4, Toshimitsu Shinkawa5, Kentoku Yamamuro6, Jun Io7, Masataka Kosaka8, Zenichiro Tanaka9, Akio Watanabe0 ...
    This book examines the lives and times of Japan’s postwar prime ministers, covering the period from 1945 to 1995. Written by Japan’s leading scholars, it is the first English-language biographical portrait of these twenty-three individuals who helped lead Japan on its road to recovery, its return to the community of nations, and its subsequent prosperity. Each chapter brings out, to varying ... Read more

    $129.99 USD

  • An Inoffensive Rearmament

    The Making of the Postwar Japanese Army

    by Estate of Frank Kowalski ...
    Col. Frank Kowalski served as the Chief of Staff of the American military advisory group that helped establish the National Police Reserve, the predecessor to the Japan Self-Defense Forces during its first two years of existence. His work provides a detailed account of the manning, logistics, and personalities involved in standing up-on short notice-of a force of approximately 75,000, while ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

  • The Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force

    Search for Legitimacy

    Edited by Robert D. Eldridge, Paul Midford ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Based on extensive Japanese-language materials, this book is the first to examine the development of Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force. It addresses: how the GSDF was able to emerge as the post-war successor of the Imperial Japanese Army despite Japan’s anti-militarist constitution; how the GSDF, despite the public skepticism and even hostility that greeted its creation, built domestic and ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • The Diplomatic History of Postwar Japan

    Edited by Makoto Iokibe ...
    Winner of the prestigious Yoshida Shigeru Prize 1999 for the best book in public history when it was published in its original Japanese, this book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of Japan’s international relations from the end of the Pacific War to the present. Written by leading Japanese authorities on the subject, it makes extensive use of the most recently declassified Japanese ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Japan 1941

    Countdown to Infamy

    by Eri Hotta ...
    A groundbreaking history that considers the attack on Pearl Harbor from the Japanese perspective and is certain to revolutionize how we think of the war in the Pacific.When Japan launched hostilities against the United States in 1941, argues Eri Hotta, its leaders, in large part, understood they were entering a war they were almost certain to lose. Drawing on material little known to Western ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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