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Author | : Hiroo Onoda |
Publisher | : Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2013-12-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1612515649 |
In the spring of 1974, Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda of the Japanese army made world headlines when he emerged from the Philippine jungle after a thirty-year ordeal. Hunted in turn by American troops, the Philippine police, hostile islanders, and successive Japanese search parties, Onoda had skillfully outmaneuvered all his pursuers, convinced that World War II was still being fought and that one day his fellow soldiers would return victorious. This account of those years is an epic tale of the will to survive that offers a rare glimpse of man's invincible spirit, resourcefulness, and ingenuity. A hero to his people, Onoda wrote down his experiences soon after his return to civilization. This book was translated into English the following year and has enjoyed an approving audience ever since.
Author | : Dick Beason |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0791485293 |
In this book, the authors address Japan's economic crisis of the 1990s. They argue that most attempts to reconcile Japan's past success with its current problems have been inadequate, primarily because scholars fail to fully understand how Japan's political-economic system was organized and how it operated in the past. Revealing that certain long-term political and economic trends suggested in subtle but unambiguous ways that the crisis of the 1990s was long in the making, the authors offer an alternative explanation for Japan's postwar political-economic trajectory and a better understanding of the challenges that Japan currently faces.
Author | : William J. Craig |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2015-09-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1504021339 |
New York Times Bestseller: A “virtually faultless” account of the last weeks of WWII in the Pacific from both Japanese and American perspectives (The New York Times Book Review). By midsummer 1945, Japan had long since lost the war in the Pacific. The people were not told the truth, and neither was the emperor. Japanese generals, admirals, and statesmen knew, but only a handful of leaders were willing to accept defeat. Most were bent on fighting the Allies until the last Japanese soldier died and the last city burned to the ground. Exhaustively researched and vividly told, The Fall of Japan masterfully chronicles the dramatic events that brought an end to the Pacific War and forced a once-mighty military nation to surrender unconditionally. From the ferocious fighting on Okinawa to the all-but-impossible mission to drop the 2nd atom bomb, and from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s White House to the Tokyo bunker where tearful Japanese leaders first told the emperor the truth, William Craig captures the pivotal events of the war with spellbinding authority. The Fall of Japan brings to life both celebrated and lesser-known historical figures, including Admiral Takijiro Onishi, the brash commander who drew up the Yamamoto plan for the attack on Pearl Harbor and inspired the death cult of kamikaze pilots., This astonishing account ranks alongside Cornelius Ryan’s The Longest Day and John Toland’s The Rising Sun as a masterpiece of World War II history.
Author | : Edgar A. Porter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789462989733 |
This book presents an unforgettably honest account of the effects of World War II and the ensuing American occupation in Japan's Oita prefecture, from the perspective of the Japanese citizens who experienced it. Through harrowing firsthand accounts from more than forty Japanese men and women who lived in the region, we get a strikingly detailed picture of the dreadful experiences of wartime life in Japan. The interviewees are wide-ranging and include students, housewives, nurses, teachers, journalists, soldiers, sailors, Kamikaze pilots, and munitions factory workers. And their collective stories range from early, spirited support for the war on to more reflective later views in the wake of the devastating losses of friends and family members to air raids, and finally into periods of hunger and fear of the American occupiers. Detailed archival materials buttress the personal accounts, and the result is an unprecedented picture of the war as felt in a single region of Japan.
Author | : Michael Strausz |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2019-08-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1438475535 |
In Help (Not) Wanted, Michael Strausz offers an original and provocative answer to a question that has long perplexed observers of Japan: Why has Japan's immigration policy remained so restrictive, especially in light of economic, demographic, and international political forces that are pushing Japan to admit more immigrants? Drawing upon insights developed during nearly two years of intensive field research in Japan, Strausz ultimately argues that Japan's immigration policy has remained restrictive for two reasons. First, Japan's labor-intensive businesses have failed to defeat anti-immigration forces within the Japanese state, particularly those in the Ministry of Justice and the Japanese Diet. Second, no influential strain of elite thought in postwar Japan exists to support the idea that significant numbers of foreign nationals have a legitimate claim to residency and citizenship. This book is particularly timely at a moment shaped by Brexit, the election of Trump, and the rise of anti-immigrant political parties and nativist rhetoric across the globe.
Author | : Tsuyoshi Hasegawa |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2006-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674038400 |
With startling revelations, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa rewrites the standard history of the end of World War II in the Pacific. By fully integrating the three key actors in the story—the United States, the Soviet Union, and Japan—Hasegawa for the first time puts the last months of the war into international perspective. From April 1945, when Stalin broke the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact and Harry Truman assumed the presidency, to the final Soviet military actions against Japan, Hasegawa brings to light the real reasons Japan surrendered. From Washington to Moscow to Tokyo and back again, he shows us a high-stakes diplomatic game as Truman and Stalin sought to outmaneuver each other in forcing Japan’s surrender; as Stalin dangled mediation offers to Japan while secretly preparing to fight in the Pacific; as Tokyo peace advocates desperately tried to stave off a war party determined to mount a last-ditch defense; and as the Americans struggled to balance their competing interests of ending the war with Japan and preventing the Soviets from expanding into the Pacific. Authoritative and engrossing, Racing the Enemy puts the final days of World War II into a whole new light.
Author | : John W Dower |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 692 |
Release | : 2000-07-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393320275 |
This study of modern Japan traces the impact of defeat and reconstruction on every aspect of Japan's national life. It examines the economic resurgence as well as how the nation as a whole reacted to defeat and the end of a suicidal nationalism.
Author | : David Suzuki |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Japan |
ISBN | : 9780773729841 |
David Suzuki, a Canadian biologist and environmentalist of Japanese descent, and Keibo Oiwa, an anthropologist raised in Japan but of Korean descent, journeyed through Japan in 1995 interviewing people known for their grassroots activities in peace, human rights, and the environment. They discovered a Japan more diverse than the monoculture they initially envisioned.
Author | : Beason, Richard |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2004-03-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780791460399 |
Contests conventional wisdom on Japan's postwar economic success and its economic and political problems in the 1990s, providing a new account of these conditions.
Author | : Tyler Brûlé |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780500971079 |
The Monocle team celebrates the endlessly fascinating and culturally rich country of Japan.