American Shogun

Author : Robert Harvey
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9781585678914
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Shogun written by Robert Harvey and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2007-04-24 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As revealed by Harvey, today's partnership between modern Japan and the United States was forged by the confrontation, and finally the reconciliation, of two competing agendas and cultures in World War II, personified by two men: General Douglas MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito.

Author : Robert Harvey
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 9780719564994
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Shogun written by Robert Harvey and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2007-03-22 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mid-nineteenth century on, America and Japan were caught in an extraordinary political, military and economic duel. This clash was characterised by a cultural incompatibility that was to haunt the negotiations of their two leaders, Emperor Hirohito and General MacArthur. Hirohito was a remarkable man. Diffident, uncharismatic and apparently obtuse, he survived as god-ruler of Japan for six decades through internal strife, war, defeat, occupation and economic victory. But Hirohito met his equal in MacArthur. Brash and domineering, MacArthur merited the honorary Japanese epithet shogun or 'army leader' for his almost single-handed six year rule over Japan. In this absorbing dual biography Robert Harvey traces their tense and complex relationship. His broad scope encompasses two great nations in war and peace - a momentous period of history which provides illuminating insight into American actions across the world today.

Author : Robert Harvey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780719564840
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Shogun written by Robert Harvey and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mid-nineteenth century on, America and Japan were caught in an extraordinary political, military and economic duel. This clash was characterised by a cultural incompatibility that was to haunt the negotiations of their two leaders, Emperor Hirohito and General MacArthur. Hirohito was a remarkable man. Diffident, uncharismatic and apparently obtuse, he survived as god-ruler of Japan for six decades through internal strife, war, defeat, occupation and economic victory. But Hirohito met his equal in MacArthur. Brash and domineering, MacArthur merited the honorary Japanese epithet shogun or 'army leader' for his almost single-handed six year rule over Japan. In this absorbing dual biography Robert Harvey traces their tense and complex relationship. His broad scope encompasses two great nations in war and peace - a momentous period of history which provides illuminating insight into American actions across the world today.

Author : Amy Stanley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501188542
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stranger in the Shogun's City written by Amy Stanley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography* *Winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award* *Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography* A “captivating” (The Washington Post) work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19th century in Edo—the city that would become Tokyo—and a portrait of a city on the brink of a momentous encounter with the West. The daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in a rural Japanese village and was expected to live a traditional life much like her mother’s. But after three divorces—and a temperament much too strong-willed for her family’s approval—she ran away to make a life for herself in one of the largest cities in the world: Edo, a bustling metropolis at its peak. With Tsuneno as our guide, we experience the drama and excitement of Edo just prior to the arrival of American Commodore Perry’s fleet, which transformed Japan. During this pivotal moment in Japanese history, Tsuneno bounces from tenement to tenement, marries a masterless samurai, and eventually enters the service of a famous city magistrate. Tsuneno’s life provides a window into 19th-century Japanese culture—and a rare view of an extraordinary woman who sacrificed her family and her reputation to make a new life for herself, in defiance of social conventions. “A compelling story, traced with meticulous detail and told with exquisite sympathy” (The Wall Street Journal), Stranger in the Shogun’s City is “a vivid, polyphonic portrait of life in 19th-century Japan [that] evokes the Shogun era with panache and insight” (National Review of Books).

Author : Frederik L. Schodt
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Native American in the Land of the Shogun written by Frederik L. Schodt and published by Stone Bridge Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "MacDonald helped "crack the seal" on Japan. He gave American officials hints on how to impress the Japanese, and equipped Japanese officials with tools for understanding the intruders. His life was, and is, a bridge between wildly different cultures, races, and eras."

Author : William C. Byham
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780887306303
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shogun Management written by William C. Byham and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the impact of Japanese management techniques and methodology on North American businesses.

Author : Frederik L. Schodt
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1611725410
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Native American in the Land of the Shogun written by Frederik L. Schodt and published by Stone Bridge Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-06-15 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Japan, after 250 years of self--imposed isolation, began the process of modernization is in part the story of Ranald MacDonald. In 1848 this half-Scot, half-Chinook adventurer from the Pacific Northwest landed on an island off Hokkaido. Although promptly arrested and imprisoned for seven months in Nagasaki, the intelligent, well-educated MacDonald fascinated the Japanese and became one of their first teachers of English and Western ways. Based on primary research in Japan and North America, this book chronicles the events leading to MacDonald’s journey and his later struggle to obtain recognition at home. Frederik L. Schodt has written extensively on Japan, including America and the Four Japans and Inside the Robot Kingdom. Fluent in spoken and written Japanese, he lives in San Francisco. In 2009 he was received the The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette for his contribution to the introduction and promotion of Japanese contemporary popular culture. "Schodt's account of MacDonald's life and his eventual journey to Japan is depicted with the accuracy of a trained academic and the excitement of a skillful novelist." --Kyoto Journal

Author : Frederik L. Schodt
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press
ISBN 13 : 1611720095
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Professor Risley and the Imperial Japanese Troupe written by Frederik L. Schodt and published by Stone Bridge Press. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at Professor Risley's introduction of the Western-style circus to Japan in 1864 and his subsequent tours of the country with the Imperial Japanese Troupe of acrobats, an encounter that opened both cultures to one another.

Author : James Clavell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781982537524
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shōgun written by James Clavell and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After John Blackthorne shipwrecks in Japan, he makes himself useful to a feudal lord in a power struggle with another and becomes a samurai.

Author : Adam Clulow
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231535732
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Company and the Shogun written by Adam Clulow and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-24 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dutch East India Company was a hybrid organization combining the characteristics of both corporation and state that attempted to thrust itself aggressively into an Asian political order in which it possessed no obvious place and was transformed in the process. This study focuses on the company's clashes with Tokugawa Japan over diplomacy, violence, and sovereignty. In each encounter the Dutch were forced to retreat, compelled to abandon their claims to sovereign powers, and to refashion themselves again and again—from subjects of a fictive king to loyal vassals of the shogun, from aggressive pirates to meek merchants, and from insistent defenders of colonial sovereignty to legal subjects of the Tokugawa state. Within the confines of these conflicts, the terms of the relationship between the company and the shogun first took shape and were subsequently set into what would become their permanent form. The first book to treat the Dutch East India Company in Japan as something more than just a commercial organization, The Company and the Shogun presents new perspective on one of the most important, long-lasting relationships to develop between an Asian state and a European overseas enterprise.