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  • Imperial Japan at Its Zenith

    The Wartime Celebration of the Empire's 2,600th Anniversary

    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    In 1940, Japan was into its third year of war with China, and relations with the United States were deteriorating, but it was a heady time for the Japanese nonetheless. That year, the Japanese commemorated the 2,600th anniversary of the founding of the Empire of Japan. According to the imperial myth-history, Emperor Jimmu, descended from the Sun Goddess Amaterasu, established the "unbroken ... Leer más

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  • Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

    Japan in the Wake of World War II

    de John W. Dower ...
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the 1999 National Book Award for Nonfiction, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering aftermath of World War II.Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of astonishing documentary photographs, Embracing ... Leer más

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  • Hirohito And The Making Of Modern Japan

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize“A startling work — awesomely ambitious, faultlessly researched, daring in its thesis, and profound in its implications." — Business Week"Magnificent. . . . everything a political biography should be." — Richmond Times-DispatchThis rich and powerful political biography is now given fresh relevance with a new introduction by the author that explores how Hirohito’s legacy ... Leer más

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  • Inventing Japan

    1853-1964

    de Ian Buruma ...
    Series series Modern Library Chronicles
    In a single short book as elegant as it is wise, Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japan’s history, the period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has ever known. In the course of little more than a hundred years from the day Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in his black ships, this insular, preindustrial realm mutated into an expansive military dictatorship that ... Leer más

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  • The Pacific War, 1931-1945

    A Critical Perspective on Japan's Role in World War II

    de Saburo Ienaga ...
    A portrayal of how and why Japan waged war from 1931-1945 and what life was like for the Japanese people in a society engaged in total war. ... Leer más

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  • Modern Japan

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Japan is arguably today's most successful industrial economy, combining almost unprecedented affluence with social stability and apparent harmony. Japanese goods and cultural products are consumed all over the world, ranging from animated movies and computer games all the way through to cars, semiconductors, and management techniques. In many ways, Japan is an icon of the modern world, and yet it ... Leer más

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  • Japan In World History

    Japan in World History ranges from Japan's prehistoric interactions with Korea and China, to the Western challenge of the late 1500s, the partial isolation under the Tokugawa family (1600-1868), and the tumultuous interactions of more recent times, when Japan modernized ferociously, turned imperialist, lost a world war, then became the world's second largest economy--and its greatest foreign aid ... Leer más

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  • Japan

    A Short History

    de Mikiso Hane ...
    What is a shogun? Who were the samurai and what is the warrior code? What lies behind the Japanese work ethic? From the ancient tea ceremony to the boom and subsequent downturn of its economic prosperity, this uniquely concise introduction to Japan and its history surveys nearly 10,000 years of society, culture, economics and politics. Balancing economic and political information with new insights ... Leer más

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  • The Making of Modern Japan

    Magisterial in vision, sweeping in scope, this monumental work presents a seamless account of Japanese society during the modern era, from 1600 to the present. A distillation of more than fifty years' engagement with Japan and its history, it is the crowning work of our leading interpreter of the modern Japanese experience. ... Leer más

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  • A Traveller&Amp;Apos;S History Of Japan

    de Richard Tames ...
    <I>A Traveller’s History of Japan</I> not only offers the reader a chronological outline of the nation’s development but also provides an invaluable introduction to its language, literature and arts, from kabuki to karaoke. This clearly written history explains how a country embedded in the traditions of Shinto, Shoguns and Samurai has achieved stupendous economic growth ... Leer más

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  • Bully of Asia

    Why China's Dream is the New Threat to World Order

    The Once and Future HegemonIn a world bristling with dangers, only one enemy poses a truly mortal challenge to the United States and the peaceful and prosperous world that America guarantees. That enemy is China, a country-that invented totalitarianism thousands of years ago-whose economic power rivals our own-that believes its superior race and culture give it the right to universal deference ... Leer más

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  • The Japanese

    A History in Twenty Lives

    A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'Mightily impressive ... a marvellous read' Sunday TimesFrom the acclaimed author of Japan Story, this is the history of Japan, distilled into the stories of twenty remarkable individuals.The vivid and entertaining portraits in Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book take the reader from the earliest written accounts of Japan right through to the life of ... Leer más

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