Japan's Asian Policy: Revival and Response
Japan's Asian Policy gives a timely, rich and balanced account of Japan’s renewed foreign policy toward its neighbors and of its neighbors’s responses. Japan’s diplomatic focus on the United States for the last half of a century and its difficulty with its own historical past has been a hindrance to its effort to construct a... More Related posts:

1. Japan on Display: Photography and the Emperor (Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series)
2. Japan’s Foreign Policy Maturation: A Quest for Normalcy (East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture)
3. Japan’s Asia Policy: Regional Security and Global Interests (Politics in Asia)

Samurai Battles
Beginning in the early days of Japanese history, this book traces the rise and fall of the warrior class over the space of a millennium, from the days of the birth of the Japanese nation through centuries of feudalism to the establishment of the western model of democracy in the late nineteenth... More Related posts:

1. The Samurai and the Sacred (General Military)
2. Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan

Blossoms in the Wind: Human Legacies of the Kamikaze
In the last days of World War II, the Japanese unleashed a new breed of warrior. They were the kamikaze-idealistic young men believing there could be no greater glory than to sacrifice their lives in suicide attacks to defend their homeland. But what of those men who took the sacred oath to die in battle-and lived? Soon after the 9/11 attacks, ethnographer M.G. Sheftall was given unprecedentedly... More Related posts:

1. Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History
2. Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers
3. Human Bullets a Soldier’s Story of Port Author

Grassroots Pacifism in Post-War Japan: The Rebirth of a Nation (Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series)
Grassroots Pacifism in Post-War Japan presents new material on grassroots peace activism and pacifism in two major groups active in the post-World War 2 peace movement - workers and housewives. Yamamoto contends that the peace movement, which was organised in tandem with other activities to promote democratic, economic and... More Related posts:

1. Nationalisms in Japan (Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series)
2. Japan and Okinawa: Structure and Subjectivity (Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series)
3. Japan on Display: Photography and the Emperor (Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series)

Japanese Society at War: Death, Memory and the Russo-Japanese War (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare)
As the first international conflict of the twentieth century, the Russo-Japanese War attracted much contemporary global interest. This 2009 text was the first full-length study to examine the war from the perspective of its impact on Japanese society, and sheds light on its implications for modern Japan. What did the war... More Related posts:

1. The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective: World War Zero (History of Warfare, Vol. 29)
2. Male Homosexuality in Modern Japan: Cultural Myths and Social Realities
3. The Making of the “Rape of Nanking”: History and Memory in Japan, China, and the United States (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University)

The Tokyo International Military Tribunal
The Tokyo International Military Tribunal (IMT) is not frequently discussed in the literature on international criminal law, and it is often thought that it was little more (and possibly less) than a footnote to the Nuremberg proceedings. This work seeks to dispel this widely-held belief, by showing the way in which the Tokyo IMT was... More Related posts:

1. Stalin’s Spy: Richard Sorge and the Tokyo Espionage Ring
2. Conflicting Currents: Japan and the United States in the Pacific (Praeger Security International)
3. Japan’s Role in International Politics since World War II (Dimensions of Contemporary Japan)

"Execute against Japan": The U.S. Decision to Conduct Unrestricted Submarine Warfare (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series)
Less than five hours after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, U.S. naval leaders reluctantly chose to pursue a form of warfare they despised—targeting not only Japanese military assets but also civilian-operated fishing trawlers, freighters, and tankers. The move to unrestricted submarine warfare represented a major change in the longstanding American adherence to the classic doctrine of... More Related posts:

1. War Against Japan Volume V: The Surrender Of Japan: History Of The Second World War: United Kingdom Military Series: Official Campaign History (History of Second World War) (v. 5)
2. Blossoming Silk Against the Rising Sun: U.s. and Japanese Paratroopers at War in the Pacific in World War II (Stackpole Military History) (Stackpole Military History Series)
3. The Making of the “Rape of Nanking”: History and Memory in Japan, China, and the United States (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University)

A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present
In The Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present, Andrew Gordon paints a richly nuanced and strikingly original portrait of the last two centuries of Japanese history. He takes students from the days of the shogunate--the feudal overlordship of the Tokugawa family--through the modernizing revolution launched by midlevel samurai in the late nineteenth... More Related posts:

1. The Internment of Western Civilians under the Japanese 1941-1945: A patchwork of internment (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia)
2. A History of Japan: From Stone Age to Superpower
3. A History of Japan (Blackwell History of the World)

The Shadow Warriors of Nakano: A History of the Imperial Japanese Army's Elite Intelligence School
In the history of the twentieth century, the role of the military intelligence services in the competition among nations is still murky. Among the world's foremost intelligence services, those of Imperial Japan remain the least known. Few stories are as compelling as those surrounding the Japanese Army's Nakano School. From 1938 to 1945, the Nakano School... More Related posts:

1. The Yamato Dynasty: The Secret History of Japan’s Imperial Family
2. B-29 Hunters of the JAAF (Osprey Aviation Elite 5)
3. Soldiers of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Army

Hiroshima in the Morning
In June 2001 Rahna Reiko Rizzuto went to Hiroshima in search of a deeper understanding of her war-torn heritage. She planned to spend six months there, interviewing the few remaining survivors of the atomic bomb. A mother of two young boys, she was encouraged to go by her husband, who quickly became disenchanted by her absence.It is her first solo life... More Related posts:

1. Hiroshima: The World’s Bomb (Making of the Modern World)
2. Children of the Atomic Bomb: An American Physician’s Memoir of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and the Marshall Islands (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)
3. Hiroshima