Black Star Over Japan

Author : Albert Axelbank
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136928057
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Star Over Japan written by Albert Axelbank and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Japanese are the only people in the world who have experienced the horror of nuclear weapons with their own flesh. Atomic holocaust was followed by American occupation and the American-inspired, postwar Japanese ‘Peace Constitution’ which explicitly outlawed Japanese military forces and the use of war as an instrument of state policy. At the time of original publication the author argued that contemporary forces within Japan were combining to create a strong movement for revision of the constitution and for the acquisition of nuclear weapons by renewed and powerful military establishment. The American government, which had encouraged rearmament, was beginning to wonder about the world effect of an economically powerful rearmed Japan and was weighing the consequences of considering Japan its only major ally in East Asia. Albert Axelbank suggests that shifting international politics and the conservative momentum in Japan make revision of the constitution and the development of Japanese militarism and nuclear weapons almost inevitable.

Author : Donald P. Whitaker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Area Handbook for Japan written by Donald P. Whitaker and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. W. M Chapman
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1780935080
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japan's Quest for Comprehensive Security written by J. W. M Chapman and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the key elements which together comprise a viable national security policy. The emergence of the concept of 'comprehensive security' in Japanese national security policy led to the creation of a Ministerial Council on Comprehensive Security. This body was expected to provide the impetus for a more co-ordinated, comprehensive and rational approach to Japan's security needs than was evident in the past. First published in 1983, this title is part of the Bloomsbury Academic Collections series.

Author : Bruce Roscoe
Publisher : Algora Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0875864937
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Windows on Japan written by Bruce Roscoe and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Windows on Japan, a New Zealander walks across rural Japan and ponders centuries-old perceptions about the country that is still prisoner to an isolationist past. In a deeply insightful commentary, the author surveys cultural, social and political mores, explores the wellspring of racial perception and the problem of the memory of war. Windows on Japan alternates chapters of physical travel with travel through perception about Japan, and challenges the logic of much Western thought about the country that perplexes as much as it pleases. The author walked a route that connects the ports of Niigata and Yokohama and from these windows on the world considers perceptions of people and place. He also assesses the effect of Japan on writers from Jonathan Swift to Oscar Wilde, Shirley MacLaine and Paul Theroux with surprising results. The trading entity that wraps its tentacles around the globe, converses in most languages and understands most customs, is perceptive and urbane and none appears more capable or cosmopolitan. Yet the individuals who inhabit these islands take refuge in their language as a private habitat, resent intrusions, and are captured by a cultural particularism that distances them from others. The author discusses this paradox, as well as environmental and linguistic issues and topics of history and literature. Along the way, he lifts a veil on the life of a snow country geisha, discusses current events with a priest and a reporter, and takes advice on becoming a Japanese. Though he is understood, it is only on return visits to places he has come to love that he wins acceptance. Notes on music delightfully enrich the narrative.

Author : Ulv Hanssen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429823819
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Temporal Identities and Security Policy in Postwar Japan written by Ulv Hanssen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a discourse analysis of Japanese parliamentary debates, this book explores how different understandings of Japan’s history have led to sharply divergent security policies in the postwar period, whilst providing an explanation for the much-debated security policy changes under Abe Shinzō. Analyzing the ways identities can be constructed through ‘temporal othering,’ as well as ‘spatial othering,’ this book examines the rise of a new form of identity in Japan since the end of the Cold War, one that is differentiated not from prewar and wartime Japan, but from postwar Japan. The champions of this identity, it argues, see the postwar past as a shameful period, characterized by self-imposed military restrictions, and thus the relentless chipping away of these limitations in recent years is indicative of how dominant this identity has become. Exploring how these military restrictions have shifted from being a symbol of pride to a symbol of shame, this book demonstrates the concrete ways in which the past can both enable and constrain policy. Temporal Identities and Security Policy in Postwar Japan will be invaluable to students and scholars of Japanese politics and foreign policy, as well as international relations more generally.

Author : Marie Söderberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113452384X
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese-Japanese Relations in the Twenty First Century written by Marie Söderberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important collection analyses the changing context of China's relationship with Japan. Its eminent international contributors address core issues including strategic concerns; security; the issue of Taiwan; diplomacy; economic relations; trade; the role of firms and currency. The book brings together a wide range of perspectives to offer a rich and varied understanding of one of Asia's most crucial and complex relationships.

Author : Tatsuo Akaneya
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Japanese-us Alliance written by Tatsuo Akaneya and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ronald Philip Dore
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349075205
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japan and World Depression written by Ronald Philip Dore and published by Springer. This book was released on 1987-06-18 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bernd Martin
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845450472
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japan and Germany in the Modern World written by Bernd Martin and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First study of the fascinating parallelism that characterizes developments in Japan and Germany by one of Germany's leading Japan specialists. With the founding of their respective national states, the Meiji Empire in 1869 and the German Reich in 1871, Japan and Germany entered world politics. Since then both countries have developed in strikingly similar ways, and it is not surprising that these two became close allies during the Second World War, although in the end this proved a "fatal attraction."

Author : C. Braddick
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230005691
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japan and the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1950-1964 written by C. Braddick and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-12-09 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan and the Sino-Soviet Alliance 1950-1964 reveals the divisive impact of the Sino-Soviet Alliance on Japanese domestic politics and foreign relations during the turbulent years between 1950 and 1964. Drawing on extensive Japanese sources and unprecedented access to previously classified government documents, C.W. Braddick exposes the myths shrouding this formative era in Japan's postwar development.