144 Pages
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Routledge
144 Pages
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Routledge
256 Pages
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Routledge
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First published in 1986. By the middle of the nineteenth century Japan had been a closed country for more than two hundred years. Then a period of constant communication between Japan and the outside world suddenly began. The Fifteen Years' War was in effect the intensification of relations between already warring nations. During the struggle of 1931 to 1945, Japan was engaged in incessant international activity. This book is based on lectures given at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, from 1979 to 1980.
Chapter 1 An Approach to Japan, 1931–1945; Chapter 2 Concerning Tenk?; Chapter 3 Insularity and National Isolation; Chapter 4 National Structure; Chapter 5 Greater Asia; Chapter 6 Patterns of Immobility; Chapter 7 The Korea Within Japan; Chapter 8 Germs of Anti-Stalinism; Chapter 9 The Philosophy of Glorious Self-destruction** The term ‘Gyokusai’ is usually translated as ‘honourable death’, but it does not in fact contain the Japanese word for ‘honour’. ‘Gyoku’ means ‘jewel’, and as a prefix is used metaphorically to mean ‘splendid’, ‘magnificent’, or ‘glorious’. ‘Sai’ means ‘crush’, ‘smash’, or ‘pulverize’. Here the term will be rendered ‘Glorious Self-Destruction’.; Chapter 10 Everyday Life during the War; Chapter 11 As Victims of Atomic Bombs; Chapter 12 The End of the War; Chapter 13 Looking Back;
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Tsurumi Shunsuke
