Imperial Japan and Defeat in the Second World War
The Collapse of an Empire
Seiten
2020
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-12081-5 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-12081-5 (ISBN)
Informed Western understanding of Imperial Japan still often conjures up images of militarism, blind devotion to leaders, and fanatical pride in the country. But, as Imperial Japan and Defeat in the Second World War reveals, Western imagination is often reductive in its explanation of the Japanese Empire and its collapse. In his analysis of the Emperor, Imperial Japanese Army and Navy during the Second World War, Peter Wetzler examines the disconnect between nation and state during wartime Japan and in doing so offers a much-needed nuanced and sensitive corrective to existing Western scholarship.
Rooted in the perspective of the Japanese, Wetzler makes available to readers vital primary and secondary Japanese archival sources; most notably, this book provides the first English assessment of the recently-released Actual Record of the Showa Emperor. This book is an important advance in English-language studies of the Second World War in Asia, and is thus essential reading for all those wishing to understand this crucial period in Japanese history.
Rooted in the perspective of the Japanese, Wetzler makes available to readers vital primary and secondary Japanese archival sources; most notably, this book provides the first English assessment of the recently-released Actual Record of the Showa Emperor. This book is an important advance in English-language studies of the Second World War in Asia, and is thus essential reading for all those wishing to understand this crucial period in Japanese history.
Peter Wetzler is Senior Research Fellow at the Ostasieninstitut, Germany. He is the author of Imperial Tradition and Military Decision Making in Prewar Japan (1998) and Yugamerareta Showa Tennozo. Obei to Nihon no Gokai to Goyaku (co-authored with Naomi Moriyama, 2006).
Preface
1. Wartime Events, Historical Hindsights and Insights
2. Kamikaze Attacks, Planning Before and After the Fall of Saipan
3. Tôjô Hideki, Man of His Times
4. Failing Strategy, Lack of War Materials, and Tôjô's Fall
5. Capitulation: Hubris and Unquestioning Belief in a Religious Ideology, Some Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 21.02.2020 |
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Reihe/Serie | SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 540 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 1-350-12081-2 / 1350120812 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-12081-5 / 9781350120815 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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