Japan: From Prehistory to Modern Times traces the principal threads of Japan's political and cultural life from early times through the mid-twentieth century. In an informative and engaging narrative, the author presents a carefully balanced and authoritative picture of Japan's transformation from a secluded, little known and backward country, with a fundamentally "Eastern" culture, to one of t…
For more than a half century scholars and nonscholars alike have debated the ethics of dropping the atomic bomb, but rarely have they studied the American plan to invade Japan, the alternative to using the bomb to end the Second World War. Widely held beliefs about the strength of Japanese forces and the projected loss of American lives have been invoked to justify the decision to drop the bomb…
In a witty, acerbic, and provocative book, the author of the influential futurist synthesis The Knowledge-Value Revolution shows how Japan, borrowing elements from both China and the West, has created a culture unlike any other one that is still changing in a uniquely Japanese way.
More than any other historical source, stone inscription provide firsthand information on the public activities of local government and elites in imperial China. In this first English language collection, the author presents a selection of stone inscriptions dating from the Sung dynasty along with translations and analyses of stone texts found in the Fukien province. Contents: 1. Stone record…
The contents of this book: 1. Encounters, 1860s to 1940s 2. Friend to Foe? New Zealand and Japan, 1900-1937 3. New Zealand, Japan, and the Twenty-year Last Contest of Empire, 1931-1951 4. New Zealand Perceptions of Japan, 1945-1965, etc.
Bushido quite literally means "the way of the warrior", and this is the general term for any one of a number of different codes adopted by Japan's warrior elite the samurai from the Middle Ages to the modern period. The golden age of samurai and bushido was already long gone by the time Inazo Nitobe penned his work "Bushido: The Soul of Japan," but its values remained. Nitobe evoked the eight …
Daftar isi: 1. Tanah dan rakyat 2. Sejarah 3. Undang-undang dasar dan pemerintahan 4. Hubungan antar Korea 5. Hubungan luar negeri 6. Ekonomi 7. Kesejahteraan sosial dan lain-lain.
A Modern History provides a comprehensive narrative that integrates the political, social, cultural, and economic history of modern Japan from the investiture of Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1603 to the present.
The contents of this book: - The Sudden Massive Influx of Continental Culture in the Late Fourth Century - The Starting Point of Yamato Wa - The Massive Inflow of Paekche People in the Fifth Century - Leaders of the Invasion Force
On the night of June 3-4, 1989, Chinese troops violently crushed the largest pro-democracy demonstrations in the history of the communist regime. In this extraordinary collection of hundreds of internal government and Communist Party documents, secretly smuggled out of China, we learn how these events came to pass from behind the scenes. The material reveals how the most important decisions wer…