Imperial Japan and defeat in the Second World War : the collapse of an empire
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Imperial Japan and defeat in the Second World War : the collapse of an empire
（SOAS studies in modern and contemporary Japan）
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021, c2020
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-235) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Wartime Events, Historical Hindsights and Insights
2. Kamikaze Attacks, Planning Before and After the Fall of Saipan
3. Tojo Hideki, Man of His Times
4. Failing Strategy, Lack of War Materials, and Tojo's Fall
5. Capitulation: Hubris and Unquestioning Belief in a Religious Ideology, Some Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"
