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J2284.80 --- J3388 --- J4880.80 --- Japan: Genealogy and biography -- biographies -- Gendai, modern (1926- ), Shōwa, 20th century --- Japan: History -- Gendai, modern -- Shōwa period -- World War II -- Pacific war (1941-1945) --- Japan: Defense and military -- history -- Gendai (1926- ), prewar Shōwa period, WW II, 20th century --- Ishihara, Kanji --- Ishihara, Kanji, --- Ishiwara, Kanji, --- Shiyuan, Guaner, --- Shiyuan, Waner, --- 石原莞爾,
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In this provocative history, James B. Wood challenges the received wisdom that Japan's defeat in the Pacific was historically inevitable. He argues instead that it was only when the Japanese military prematurely abandoned its original sound strategic plan - to secure the resources Japan needed and establish a viable defensible perimeter for the Empire - that the Allies were able to regain the initiative and lock Japanese forces into a war of attrition they were not prepared to fight. The book persuasively shows how the Japanese army and navy had both the opportunity and the capability to have fought a different and more successful war in the Pacific that could have influenced the course and outcome of World War II. It is therefore a study both of Japanese defeat and of what was needed to achieve a potential Japanese victory, or at the very least, to avoid total ruin. Wood's argument does not depend on signal individual historical events or dramatic accidents. Instead it examines how familiar events could have become more complicated or problematic under different, but nevertheless historically possible, conditions due to changes in the complex interaction of strategic and operational factors over time. Wood concludes that fighting a different war was well within the capacities of imperial Japan. He underscores the fact that the enormous task of achieving total military victory over Japan would have been even more difficult, perhaps too difficult, if the Japanese had waged a different war and the Allies had not fought as skillfully as they did. If Japan had traveled that alternate military road, the outcome of the Pacific War could have differed significantly from that we know so well, and, perhaps a little too complacently, accept. -- Publisher's Description.
World War, 1939-1945 --- Strategy --- History --- Japan --- Military policy. --- J3384 --- J4880.80 --- J4881.10 --- Japan: History -- Gendai, modern -- Shōwa period -- World War II (1931-1945) --- Japan: Defense and military -- history -- Gendai (1926- ), prewar Shōwa period, WW II, 20th century --- Japan: Defense and military -- policy, legislation, guidelines, codes of behavior
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Frederick R. Dickinson illuminates a new, integrative history of interwar Japan that highlights the transformative effects of the Great War far from the Western Front. World War I and the Triumph of a New Japan, 1919-1930 reveals how Japan embarked upon a decade of national reconstruction following the Paris Peace Conference, rivalling the monumental rebuilding efforts in post-Versailles Europe. Taking World War I as his anchor, Dickinson examines the structural foundations of a new Japan, discussing the country's wholehearted participation in new post-war projects of democracy, internationalism, disarmament and peace. Dickinson proposes that Japan's renewed drive for military expansion in the 1930s marked less a failure of Japan's interwar culture than the start of a tumultuous domestic debate over the most desirable shape of Japan's twentieth-century world. This stimulating study will engage students and researchers alike, offering a unique, global perspective of interwar Japan.
J3375 --- J3382 --- Japan: History -- Kindai, modern -- Taishō period (1912-1926) --- Japan: History -- Gendai, modern -- early Shōwa, prewar period (1920s-1945) --- World War, 1914-1918 --- European War, 1914-1918 --- First World War, 1914-1918 --- Great War, 1914-1918 --- World War 1, 1914-1918 --- World War I, 1914-1918 --- World War One, 1914-1918 --- WW I (World War, 1914-1918) --- WWI (World War, 1914-1918) --- History, Modern --- Influence --- Hamaguchi, Osachi, --- 浜口雄幸, --- 濱口雄幸, --- Japan --- Economic conditions --- Foreign relations --- Politics and government --- Influence. --- Arts and Humanities --- History
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In the decades between the two World Wars, Japan made a dramatic entry into the modern age, expanding its capital industries and urbanizing so quickly as to rival many long-standing Western industrial societies. How the Japanese made sense of the sudden transformation and the subsequent rise of mass culture is the focus of Harry Harootunian's fascinating inquiry into the problems of modernity. Here he examines the work of a generation of Japanese intellectuals who, like their European counterparts, saw modernity as a spectacle of ceaseless change that uprooted the dominant historical culture from its fixed values and substituted a culture based on fantasy and desire. Harootunian not only explains why the Japanese valued philosophical understandings of these events, often over sociological or empirical explanations, but also locates Japan's experience of modernity within a larger global process marked by both modernism and fascism. What caught the attention of Japanese thinkers was how the production of desire actually threatened historical culture. These intellectuals sought to "overcome" the materialism and consumerism associated with the West, particularly the United States. They proposed versions of a modernity rooted in cultural authenticity and aimed at infusing meaning into everyday life, whether through art, memory, or community. Harootunian traces these ideas in the works of Yanagita Kunio, Tosaka Jun, Gonda Yasunosuke, and Kon Wajiro, among others, and relates their arguments to those of such European writers as George Simmel, Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Georges Bataille. Harootunian shows that Japanese and European intellectuals shared many of the same concerns, and also stresses that neither Japan's involvement with fascism nor its late entry into the capitalist, industrial scene should cause historians to view its experience of modernity as an oddity. The author argues that strains of fascism ran throughout most every country in Europe and in many ways resulted from modernizing trends in general. This book, written by a leading scholar of modern Japan, amounts to a major reinterpretation of the nature of Japan's modernity.
J4140.80 --- J4000.80 --- J3375 --- J3382 --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cultural history -- Gendai (1926- ), Shōwa period, 20th century --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- Gendai (1926- ), Shōwa period, 20th century --- Japan: History -- Kindai, modern -- Taishō period (1912-1926) --- Japan: History -- Gendai, modern -- early Shōwa, prewar period (1920s-1945) --- Civilization, Modern --- Japan --- Civilization --- Western influences. --- Relations. --- Relations --- Occidental influences --- Twentieth century --- J4150.80 --- International relations --- Economic History --- Western influences --- Civilization - Western influences
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"Arms control remains a major international issue as the twentieth century closes, but it is hardly a new concern. The effort to limit military power has enjoyed recurring support since shortly after World War I, when the United States, Britain, and Japan sought naval arms control as a means to insure stability in the Far East, contain naval expenditure, and prevent another world cataclysm."--BOOK JACKET. "Richard Fanning examines the efforts of American, British, and Japanese leaders - political, military, and social - to reach agreement on naval limitation between 1922 and the mid-1930s, with focus on the years 1927-30, when political leaders, statesmen, naval officers, and various civilian pressure groups were especially active in considering naval limits. The civilian and even some military actors believed the Great War had been an aberration and that international stability would reign in the near future. But the coming of the Great Depression brought a dramatic drop in concern for disarmament."--BOOK JACKET. "This study, based on a wide variety of unpublished sources, compares the cultural underpinnings of the disarmament movement in the three countries, especially the effects of public opinion, through examination of the many peace groups that played an important role in the disarmament process. The decision to strive for arms control, he finds, usually resulted from peace group pressure and political expediency."--BOOK JACKET. "For anyone interested in naval history, this book illuminates the beginnings of the arms limitation effort and the growth of the peace movement."--BOOK JACKET.
Arms control --- History --- Navies --- Sea power --- Arms control - History. --- Navies - History. --- Sea-power - History. --- Sea-power --- Military power --- Navy --- Armed Forces --- Naval art and science --- Warships --- Security, International --- Arms race --- Disarmament --- Military readiness --- Arms --- Geschichte --- 1922-1933 --- J4888.10 --- J4884 --- J4880.80 --- Japan: Defense and military -- arms, weaponry --- Japan: Defense and military -- navy --- Japan: Defense and military -- history -- Gendai (1926- ), prewar Shōwa period, WW II, 20th century
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Based on multiarchival research conducted over almost three decades, this landmark account tells how a few men set off a war that would lead to tragedy for millions. Stein Tønnesson was one of the first historians to delve into scores of secret French, British, and American political, military, and intelligence documents. In this fascinating account of an unfolding tragedy, he brings this research to bear to disentangle the complex web of events, actions, and mentalities that led to thirty years of war in Indochina. As the story unfolds, Tønnesson challenges some widespread misconceptions, arguing that French general Leclerc fell into a Chinese trap in March 1946, and Vietnamese general Giap into a French trap in December. Taking us from the antechambers of policymakers in Paris to the docksides of Haiphong and the streets of Hanoi, Vietnam 1946 provides the most vivid account to date of the series of events that would make Vietnam the most embattled area in the world during the Cold War period.
Indochinese War, 1946-1954. --- Indochinese War, 1946-1954 --- Causes. --- Vietnam --- France --- China --- History --- Relations --- 1946. --- american military. --- british military. --- china. --- chinese. --- cold war period. --- comprehensive account. --- engaging. --- french military. --- french. --- global politics. --- global tragedy. --- haiphong. --- hanoi. --- indochina. --- intense. --- modern history. --- nations at war. --- nonfiction. --- page turner. --- paris. --- policymakers. --- politics. --- prewar events. --- research. --- revolution and war. --- secret intelligence documents. --- southeast asia. --- vietnam history. --- vietnam war. --- vietnam. --- war drama. --- war in indochina.
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In exploring the career of Seki Hajime (1873-1935), who served as mayor of Japan's second-largest city, Osaka, Jeffrey E. Hanes traces the roots of social progressivism in prewar Japan. Seki, trained as a political economist in the late 1890's, when Japan was focused single-mindedly on "increasing industrial production," distinguished himself early on as a people-centered, rather than a state-centered, national economist. After three years of advanced study in Europe at the turn of the century, during which he engaged Marxism and later steeped himself in the exciting new field of social economics, Seki was transformed into a progressive. The social reformism of Seki and others had its roots in a transnational fellowship of progressives who shared the belief that civilized nations should be able to forge a middle path between capitalism and socialism. Hanes's sweeping study permits us not only to weave social progressivism into the modern Japanese historical narrative but also to reconceive it as a truly transnational movement whose impact was felt across the Pacific as well as the Atlantic.
Economists --- Mayors --- Seki, Hajime, --- Osaka (Japan) --- Japan --- Economic conditions. --- Economic conditions --- capital. --- capitalism. --- city politics. --- class. --- east asia. --- factory production. --- history. --- industrial production. --- industrial revolution. --- japan. --- japanese history. --- japanese industry. --- marxism. --- mayor. --- meiji restoration. --- modern japan. --- nation. --- national economy. --- osaka. --- political economics. --- politician. --- politics. --- prewar japan. --- progressive politics. --- seki hajime. --- social change. --- social economics. --- social progressivism. --- social reform. --- socialism. --- textile industry. --- textile mills. --- transnational history. --- transnational movement. --- urbanism.
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J4125 --- J4000.80 --- J3382 --- Internal security --- -Political crimes and offenses --- -Offenses, Political --- Political offenses --- Crime --- Extradition --- Political violence --- Subversive activities --- Security, Internal --- Insurgency --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- propaganda --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- Gendai (1926- ), Shōwa period, 20th century --- Japan: History -- Gendai, modern -- early Shōwa, prewar period (1920s-1945) --- History --- Japan --- Politics and government --- -Internal security --- Political crimes and offenses --- History. --- -Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- propaganda --- -J4125 --- Offenses, Political --- J4600.80 --- J4700.80 --- J4122 --- Japan: Politics and law -- history -- Gendai (1926- ), Shōwa period, 20th century --- Japan: Law and jurisprudence -- history -- Gendai (1926- ), Shōwa period, 20th century --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- nationalism --- Offenses against the State --- State, Offenses against the
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