The death of Emperor Hirohito in 1989 ended Japan's Showa era (1926-1989) and provided the occasion for the Japanese to confront their past and the roots of their present success. This "stimulating and comprehensive" (Kirkus Reviews) collection of original essays on twentieth-century Japan's history and culture provides a unique mix of American and Japanese perspectives on Showa. With an important, substantial Introduction by Carol Gluck, the volume explores the strengths of the Japanese economy, the issue of democracy and Japan's political culture, Japan's achievements in technology and the arts, and its relations with other Asian nations and the United States.

Showa: The Japan of Hirohito

History

Gluck, Carol

Asia

W.W.Norton&Company

Ideology played a momentous role in modern Japanese history. Not only did the elite of imperial Japan (1890-1945) work hard to influence the people to "yield as the grasses before the wind," but historians of modern Japan later identified these efforts as one of the underlying pathologies of World War II. Available for the first time in paperback, this study examines how this ideology evolved. Carol Gluck argues that the process of formulating and communicating new national values was less consistent than is usually supposed. By immersing the reader in the talk and thought of the late Meiji period, Professor Gluck recreates the diversity of ideological discourse experienced by Japanese of the time. The result is a new interpretation of the views of politics and the nation in imperial Japan.

Japan's Modern Myths

Princeton University Press

Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period (Studies of the East Asian Institute)

Asia in Western and World History: A Guide for Teaching: A Guide for Teaching (Columbia Project on Asia in the Core Curriculum)

A guide aimed at introducing students to the history of Asia in conjunction with Western and world history.

Embree, Ainslie, T

Humor & Entertainment

Routledge

A guide aimed at introducing students to the history of Asia in conjunction with Western and world history.

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Books by Gluck, Carol

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Showa: The Japan of Hirohito

Japan's Modern Myths

Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period (Studies of the East Asian Institute)

Asia in Western and World History: A Guide for Teaching: A Guide for Teaching (Columbia Project on Asia in the Core Curriculum)

Asia in Western and World History: A Guide for Teaching: A Guide for Teaching (Columbia Project on Asia in the Core Curriculum)