The Knights of Bushido: A History of Japanese War Crimes During World War II
An enlightening elucidation of Japanese brutality in World War II, this book is an honest look at an unexplored facet of the inhumane war crimes of this era.The war crimes trials at Nuremberg and Tokyo meted out the Allies' official justice; Lord Russell of Liverpool's sensational bestselling books on the Axis' war crimes decided the public's opinion. The ... More Related posts:

1. The Knights of Bushido-Hardbound: A Short History of Japanese War Crimes
2. 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)
3. Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes In World War II (Transitions–Asia and Asian America)

The Knights of Bushido-Hardbound: A Short History of Japanese War Crimes
This is the classic, standard account of Japanese war crimes; a best seller in its time, but out of print for many years. Between 1931 and 1945 Japanese troops rampaged through one defeated country after another, executing civilians, despoiling cities, massacring prisoners and cruelly exploiting prisoners of war and native populations. This carefully... More Related posts:

1. The Knights of Bushido: A History of Japanese War Crimes During World War II
2. Japan: A Short History (One World (Oxford))
3. Modern Japan: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Japan's Quest For A Permanent Security Council Seat: A Matter of Pride or Justice? (St. Antony's)
Japan has consistently been pursuing the goal of a permanent UN Security Council seat for 30 years. This book investigates the motives for this ambition, and how it has been pursued domestically and internationally. It is therefore a study of the interior workings of the Japanese Foreign Ministry as well as of the country's... More Related posts:

1. War Crimes Tribunals and Transitional Justice: The Tokyo Trial and the Nuremburg Legacy (Contemporary Security Studies)
2. Japan’s Foreign Policy Maturation: A Quest for Normalcy (East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture)
3. Normalizing Japan: Politics, Identity, and the Evolution of Security Practice (Studies in Asian Security)

Pacific Warriors: The U.S. Marines in World War II: A Pictorial Tribute
FROM THE HALLS OF MONTEZUMA to the shores of Tripoli, as the Marine Corps Hymn relates, and more recently in the epic battle of the Chosin Reservoir in Korea and the siege of Hue City in Vietnam, America’s “soldiers of the sea” have fought their country’s baffles around the world for more than two centuries. From Belleau... More Related posts:

1. The GI War Against Japan: American Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific During World War II
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 Marines of Montford Point: America’s First Black Marines

Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 (Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies)
During Japan's colonial rule over Korea from 1910 until the end of World War II, Japan adopted assimilation as its administrative policy but was unable to integrate the Korean people as Japanese. In Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945/i>, Mark Caprio traces the history of this... More Related posts:

1. Primitive Selves: Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze, 1910-1945 (Colonialisms)
2. la Guerre Russo-Japoinaise 1904-1905 (Translated in to English by the Division of International Law of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
3. The Internment of Western Civilians under the Japanese 1941-1945: A patchwork of internment (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia)

RLE: Japan Mini-Set B: History (34 vols): Japan Under Taisho Tenno: 1912-1926 (Routledge Library Editions) (Volume 33)
A journalist on the Japan Chronicle for eleven years this volume examines the history, economy, politics and society of Japan from just before the First World War until 1926. Japan’s relations with the West, as well as with Russia and China are also discussed.  ... More Related posts:

1. RLE: Japan Mini-Set B: History (34 vols): Imperial Japan: 1926-1938 (Routledge Library Editions) (Volume 34)
2. RLE: Japan Mini-Set B: History (34 vols): Government by Assassination (Routledge Library Editions) (Volume 7)
3. RLE: Japan Mini-Set B: History (34 vols): The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire (Routledge Library Editions) (Volume 15)

Gold Warriors: America's Secret Recovery of Yamashita's Gold
Uncovers one of the biggest secrets of the twentieth century.In 1945, US Intelligence officers in Manila discovered that the Japanese had hidden large quantities of gold bullion and other looted treasure in the Philippines. President Truman decided to recover the gold but to keep its riches secret. These would... More Related posts:

1. Warriors of Medieval Japan (General Military)
2. The Teeth and Claws of the Buddha: Monastic Warriors and Sohei in Japanese History
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America's Japan: The First Year, 1945-1946 (World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension)
One of the few non-Japanese Americans trained to read, write, and speak Japanese, Princeton undergraduate Grant Goodman had a privileged position during World War II. As an Army lieutenant, Goodman served in the Philippines at the close of the war and in Tokyo as an intelligence officer on General Douglas... More Related posts:

1. The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective: World War Zero (History of Warfare, Vol. 29)
2. The GI War Against Japan: American Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific During World War II
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America's Geisha Ally: Reimagining the Japanese Enemy
During World War II, Japan was vilified by America as our hated enemy in the East. Though we distinguished "good Germans" from the Nazis, we condemned all Japanese indiscriminately as fanatics and savages. As the Cold War heated up, however, the U.S. government decided to make Japan its bulwark against communism in Asia. But how was the American... More Related posts:

1. Butterflies of the Night: Mama-sans, Geisha, Strippers, and the Japanese Men They Serve
2. Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha Who Bewitched the West

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeIn this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose sixty-three-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world. Never before has the full life of this controversial figure been revealed with... More Related posts:

1. Punishment and Power in the Making of Modern Japan
2. Age of Hirohito: In Search of Modern Japan
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