Shōwa Japan: 1941-1952
Author: Stephen S. Large
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780415143219
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Shōwa Japan: 1926-1941
Author: Stephen S. Large
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780415143202
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJapan's Struggle to End the War
Author: United States Strategic Bombing Survey
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Published: 1946
Total Pages: 48
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmperor Hirohito and Showa Japan
Author: Stephen Large
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-01-11
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 1134968760
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmperor Hirohito reigned for more than sixty years, yet we know little about him or the part he really played in the turbulent history of Showa Japan. Stephen Large draws on a wide range of Japanese and Western sources in his study of Emperor Hirohito's political role in Showa Japan (1926-89). This analysis focuses on key events in his career such as the extent to which he bore responsibility for Japanese aggression in the Pacific in 1941, and explains why Hirohito remains such a contested symbol in Japanese post war politics.
Japan's War
Author: Edwin Palmer Hoyt
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 567
ISBN-13: 0815411189
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTracing the history of Japanese aggression from 1853 onward, Hoyt masterfully addresses some of the biggest questions left from the Pacific front of World War II.
Dark Heritage in Contemporary Japan
Author: Jung-Sun Han
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-05-13
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1040021913
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines civic activism to conserve dark heritage built by the colonial and wartime labor regime in contemporary Japan. Introducing and analyzing local organizations and their activities in multiple locations throughout Japan, this book looks at the ways in which the Japanese have remembered, negotiated, and re-experienced their wartime past. Drawing insights from disciplines including critical heritage studies, social movements, the history of colonialism, imperialism, and decolonization, the book brings into focus the Japanese civic activism which confronts the legacies of the wartime labor regime operated throughout the colonial empire. By tracing the formation of grassroots movements to conserve war-related sites throughout Japan, it argues that reclaiming places for plural war memories bequeathed by colonial empire has been pivotal in creating public spaces for civic activism attentive to identities and differences in contemporary Japan. Delving into the multilayered connections between the memories of imperial wars, colonial empire, and place-based politics in postwar Japan, this book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of colonialism, heritage studies and Japanese history.
The Oxford Handbook of International Criminal Law
Author: Darryl Robinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 911
ISBN-13: 019882520X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMoving away from conventional approaches to the study of the subject, the Oxford Handbook of International Criminal Law draws on insights from disciplines both outside of criminal law and outside of law itself to critically examine issues such as international criminal law's actors, rationales, boundaries, and narratives
The Dismantling of Japan's Empire in East Asia
Author: Barak Kushner
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2016-12-08
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 1317284801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe end of Japan’s empire appeared to happen very suddenly and cleanly – but, as this book shows, it was in fact very messy, with a long period of establishing or re-establishing the postwar order. Moreover, as the authors argue, empires have afterlives, which, in the case of Japan’s empire, is not much studied. This book considers the details of deimperialization, including the repatriation of Japanese personnel, the redrawing of boundaries, issues to do with prisoners of war and war criminals and new arrangements for democratic political institutions, for media and for the regulation of trade. It also discusses the continuing impact of empire on the countries ruled or occupied by Japan, where, as a result of Japanese management and administration, both formal and informal, patterns of behavior and attitudes were established that continued subsequently. This was true in Japan itself, where returning imperial personnel had to be absorbed and adjustments made to imperial thinking, and in present-day East Asia, where the shadow of Japan’s empire still lingers. This legacy of unresolved issues concerning the correct relationship of Japan, an important, energetic, outgoing nation and a potential regional "hub," with the rest of the region not comfortably settled in this era, remains a fulcrum of regional dispute.
The Japanese Empire
Author: S. C. M. Paine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-03-06
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1107011957
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn accessible, analytical survey of the rise and fall of Imperial Japan in the context of its grand strategy to transform itself into a great power.
North Korea and the Science of Provocation
Author: Robert Daniel Wallace
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2016-02-03
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0786499699
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy does North Korea routinely turn to provocation to achieve foreign policy goals? Are the actions of the volatile Kim regime predictable, based on logical responses to the conditions faced by North Korea? This book, an examination of the "Hermit Kingdom" over the past 50 years, explains why the Democratic People's Republic of Korea uses hostility and coercion as instruments of foreign policy. Using three case studies and quantitative analysis of more than 2,000 conflict events, the author explores the relationship between North Korea's societal conditions and its propensity for external conflict. These findings are considered in light of diversionary theory, the idea that leaders use external conflict to divert attention from domestic affairs. Analyzing the actions of an isolated state such as North Korea provides a template for conflict scholarship in general.
