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J3382 --- J4810.80 --- Japan: History -- Gendai, modern -- early Shōwa, prewar period (1920s-1945) --- Japan: International politics and law -- international relations, policy and security -- Gendai (1926- ), Shōwa period, 20th century

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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 abandoned its original strategic plan to secure resources and establish a viable defensible perimeter 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. If Japan h

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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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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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.

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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