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Showa : the Japan of Hirohito
- Title
- Showa : the Japan of Hirohito / Carol Gluck and Stephen R. Graubard, editors.
- Publication
- New York : Norton, [1992]
- ©1992
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | DS888.2 .S556 1992 | Off-site |
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- Description
- lxii, 315 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- Presents a collection of essays that chart the history of twentieth-century Japan and offer a variety of perspectives on Japan's Showa era, which lasted from 1926 to 1989. Explores such topics as the Japanese economy, the issue of democracy, and Japan's achievements in technology and the arts.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Originally published as a special issue of Daedalus, Summer 1990.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The idea of Showa / Carol Gluck -- The Showa era (1926-1989) / Masataka Kosaka -- The useful war / John W. Dower -- The people who invented the mechanical nightingale / Chalmers Johnson -- Japan meets the United States for the second time / Makoto Iokibe -- The occupation : some reflections / Herbert Passin -- Rice and melons : Japanese agriculture in the Showa era / Chikashi Moriguchi -- Bringing politics back into Japan / Michio Muramatsu -- Diplomacy and the military in Showa Japan / Shinichi Kitaoka -- Money and the Japanese / Shoichi Royama -- The Showa economic experience / Edward J. Lincoln -- Regional Japan : the price of prosperity and the benefits of dependency / William W. Kelly -- My-Car-isma : motorizing the Showa self / David W. Plath -- The intellectual community of the Showa era / Masakazu Yamazaki -- High culture in the Showa period / J. Thomas Rimer -- How they have looked to us / Edward Seidensticker.
- ISBN
- 0393029840
- 9780393029840
- 0393310647
- 9780393310641
- LCCN
- 91037665
- OCLC
- ocm24626726
- 24626726
- SCSB-14471834
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library