Shōwa Japan: 1973-1989

Shōwa Japan: 1973-1989
Author: Stephen S. Large
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780415143233

The influential articles reprinted in this set, with a major new introduction, offer a rich variety of perspectives on this vital and controversial period in twentieth-century Japanese history.

Shōwa Japan: 1952-1973

Shōwa Japan: 1952-1973
Author: Stephen S. Large
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780415143226

The influential articles reprinted in this set, with a major new introduction, offer a rich variety of perspectives on this vital and controversial period in twentieth-century Japanese history.

Powerful Patriots

Powerful Patriots
Author: Jessica Chen Weiss
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2014
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0199387559

What role do nationalism and popular protest play in China's foreign relations? Chinese authorities permitted anti-American demonstrations in 1999 but repressed them in 2001 during two crises in U.S.-China relations. Anti-Japanese protests were tolerated in 1985, 2005, and 2012 but banned in 1990 and 1996. Protests over Taiwan, the issue of greatest concern to Chinese nationalists, have never been allowed. To explain this variation, Powerful Patriots identifies the diplomatic as well as domestic factors that drive protest management in authoritarian states. Because nationalist protests are costly to repress and may turn against the government, allowing protests demonstrates resolve and makes compromise more costly in diplomatic relations. Repressing protests, by contrast, sends a credible signal of reassurance, facilitating diplomatic flexibility. Powerful Patriots traces China's management of dozens of nationalist protests and their consequences between 1985 and 2012.

Gifts of Art: The Met’s 150th Anniversary

Gifts of Art: The Met’s 150th Anniversary
Author: Max Hollein
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2020-11-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1588397351

In honor of the institution’s 150th year, this publication celebrates the 203 collectors who committed more than 2,500 works of art to The Met for the sesquicentennial. These meaningful additions change the ways in which we think about the Museum’s holdings and deepen the stories The Met can tell about all the works in the collection. Highlights featured in this volume include an imposing stone head from an Egyptian sarcophagus; an opulent horse armor commissioned by King Philip IV of Spain; a Tibetan war mask; an early American daguerreotype; Sir Edward Burne-Jones’s enigmatic watercolor; an early twentieth-century Japanese bamboo shrine cabinet; poignant photographs made by Robert Frank for his iconic series The Americans; the Cuban American artist Carmen Herrera’s 1949 tondo Iberic; Steve Miller’s 1961 Gibson guitar; important works by Georg Baselitz; art from the Iranian Saqqakhana school; the vibrant bark painting of Aboriginal Australian artist Nonggirrnga Marawili; and recent creations by artists such as Cecily Brown, Peter Doig, Robert Gober, and Wangechi Mutu.

Japan’s Threat Perception during the Cold War

Japan’s Threat Perception during the Cold War
Author: Eitan Oren
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2023-02-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000836126

Oren re-examines Japan’s threat perception during the first two decades of the Cold War, using a wide range of source materials, including many unavailable in English, or only recently declassified. There is a widely shared misconception that during the Cold War the Japanese were largely shielded from threats due to the American military protection, the regional balance of power, Japan’s geographical insularity, and domestic aversion to militarism. Oren dispels this, showing how security threats pervaded Japanese strategic thinking in this period. By dispelling this misconception, Oren enables us to more accurately gauge the degree to which Japan’s threat perception has evolved during and after the end of the Cold War and to enhance our understanding of Tokyo’s strategic calculus in the current situation of rivalry between China and the United States. This book will be of great value to both scholars of Japanese history and contemporary international relations.

A History of Shōwa Japan, 1926-1989

A History of Shōwa Japan, 1926-1989
Author: Takafusa Nakamura
Publisher:
Total Pages: 528
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN:

The reign of Emperor Hirohito-the Showa era-is synonymous with the history of twentieth-century Japan. That history is told here by one of Japan's most respected economists and historians. Takafusa Nakamura, a contemporary of the Showa emperor, examines the events and historical forces that shaped the century and the effects they had on ordinary citizens.

Japan's Socio-Economic Evolution

Japan's Socio-Economic Evolution
Author: Sarah Metzger-Court
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2013-12-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134243979

From the commercial and industrial transformation of Osaka in the late 19th century to the role and status of Japanese multinationals in Europe: these two themes represent both the time-span and the breadth of this volume.