Showa The Japan of Hirohito,9780393310641

Showa The Japan of Hirohito

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780393310641
ISBN10: 0393310647
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1993-08-17
Publisher(s): W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary

This "stimulating and comprehensive" ( Kirkus Reviews ) collection of original essays on twentieth-century Japan's history and culture provides a unique mix of American and Japanese perspectives on Showa. With an important, substantial Introduction by Carol Gluck, the volume explores the strengths of the Japanese economy, the issue of democracy and Japan's political culture, Japan's achievements in technology and the arts, and its relations with other Asian nations and the United States.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Stephen R. Graubard
Introduction xi
Carol Gluck
The Idea of Showa
1(26)
Carol Gluck
The Showa Era (1926--1989)
27(22)
Masataka Kosaka
The Useful War
49(22)
John W. Dower
The People Who Invented the Mechanical Nightingale
71(20)
Chalmers Johnson
Japan Meets the United States for the Second Time
91(16)
Makoto Iokibe
The Occupation---Some Reflections
107(24)
Herbert Passin
Rice and Melons---Japanese Agriculture in the Showa Era
131(10)
Chikashi Moriguchi
Bringing Politics Back into Japan
141(14)
Michio Muramatsu
Diplomacy and the Military in Showa Japan
155(22)
Shinichi Kitaoka
Money and the Japanese
177(14)
Shoichi Royama
The Showa Economic Experience
191(18)
Edward J. Lincoln
Regional Japan: The Price of Prosperity and the Benefits of Dependency
209(20)
William W. Kelly
My-Car-isma: Motorizing the Showa Self
229(16)
David W. Plath
The Intellectual Community of the Showa Era
245(20)
Masakazu Yamazaki
High Culture in the Showa Period
265(14)
J. Thomas Rimer
How They Have Looked to Us
279(20)
Edward Seidensticker
Index 299

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