CiNii 図書 - Imperial eclipse : Japan's strategic thinking about continental Asia before August 1945

The "Pacific War" narrative of Japan's defeat that was established after 1945 started with the attack on Pearl Harbor, detailed the U.S. island-hopping campaigns across the Western Pacific, and culminated in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan's capitulation, and its recasting as the western shore of an American ocean. But in the decades leading up to World War II and over the course of the conflict, Japan's leaders and citizens were as deeply concerned about continental Asia-and the Soviet Union, in particular-as they were about the Pacific theater and the United States. In Imperial Eclipse, Yukiko Koshiro reassesses the role that Eurasia played in Japan's diplomatic and military thinking from the turn of the twentieth century to the end of the war.Through unprecedented archival research, Koshiro has located documents and reports expunged from the files of the Japanese Cabinet, ministries of Foreign Affairs and War, and Imperial Headquarters, allowing her to reconstruct Japan's official thinking about its plans for continental Asia. She brings to light new information on the assumptions and resulting plans that Japan's leaders made as military defeat became increasingly certain and the Soviet Union slowly moved to declare war on Japan (which it finally did on August 8, two days after Hiroshima). She also describes Japanese attitudes toward Russia in the prewar years, highlighting the attractions of communism and the treatment of Russians in the Japanese empire; and she traces imperial attitudes toward Korea and China throughout this period. Koshiro's book offers a balanced and comprehensive account of imperial Japan's global ambitions.

Introduction. The World of Japan's Eurasian-Pacific WarPart I. The Place of Russia in Prewar Japan1. Communist Ideology and Alliance with the Soviet Union Allures of Utopia The Soviet Union as Radical Hope Alliance with the Soviet Union2. Culture and Race: Russians in the Japanese Empire Americans in Japan: The Most Isolated Russians in Japan: The Blue-eyed Neighbors Russians in Japan's Pan-AsianismPart II. Future of East Asia after the Japanese Empire3. Mao's Communist Revolution: Who Will Rule China? Japan's China Studies and the CCP Japanese Military Appraisal of CCP Propaganda Moscow-Yan'an Dissonance Toward the Recognition of Yan'an4. International Rivalry over Divided Korea: Who to Replace Japan? Early War Years: Assessing Communist Influences from Abroad Understanding International Ambitions for Korea: The View from 1944Part III. Ending the War and Beyond5. Cold War Rising: Observing US-Soviet Dissonance Diplomatic Charades with the Soviet Union Japanese Peace Feelers and the United States Moscow-Washington Dissonance and Competing Visions for a Postwar World China Intrigue6. Military Showdown: Ending the War Without Two-Front Battles The Improbability of Two-Front Attacks Korean Gambit7. Japan's Surrender: Views of the Nation From "Mokusatsu" to Surrender: The Final Twenty Days of Japan's War Soviet Entry into the War and the American Use of the Atomic Bombs Collapse of Japan's Continental EmpirePart IV. Inventing Japan's War: Eurasian Eclipse8. Memories and Narratives of Japan's War Views of the War's End and Beyond Writing a History of Japan's WarEpilogue. Toward a New Understanding of Japan's Eurasian-Pacific WarAppendix Index

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