| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 241 pages) |
| Series |
SOAS studies in modern and contemporary Japan |
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SOAS studies in modern and contemporary Japan.
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| Contents |
Preface -- 1. Wartime Events, Historical Hindsights and Insights -- 2. Kamikaze Attacks, Planning Before and After the Fall of Saipan -- 3. Tôjô Hideki, Man of His Times -- 4. Failing Strategy, Lack of War Materials, and Tôjô's Fall -- 5. Capitulation: Hubris and Unquestioning Belief in a Religious Ideology, Some Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
"Informed Western understanding of Imperial Japan still often conjures up images of militarism, blind devotion to leaders, and fanatical pride in the country. But, as Imperial Japan and Defeat in the Second World War reveals, Western imagination is often reductive in its explanation of the Japanese Empire and its collapse. In his analysis of the Emperor, Imperial Japanese Army and Navy during the Second World War, Peter Wetzler examines the disconnect between nation and state during wartime Japan and in doing so offers a much-needed nuanced and sensitive corrective to existing Western scholarship. Rooted in the perspective of the Japanese, Wetzler makes available to readers vital primary and secondary Japanese archival sources; most notably, this book provides the first English assessment of the recently-released Actual Record of the Showa Emperor. This book is an important advance in English-language studies of the Second World War in Asia, and is thus essential reading for all those wishing to understand this crucial period in Japanese history."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (Bloomsbury Coillection, viewed on March 23, 2020) |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan.
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Asian history.
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Intellectual life
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Japan -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069535
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Japan -- Politics and government -- 1926-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069554
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Japan -- History -- 1912-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069502
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| Subject |
Japan
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781350120822 |
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1350120820 |
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9781350120839 |
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1350120839 |
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