Imperial Eclipse : Japan's Strategic Thinking about Continental Asia before August 1945 /

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"The "Pacific War" narrative of Japan's defeat that was established after 1945 started with the attack on Pearl Harbor, detailed the U.S. island-hopping campaigns across the Western Pacific, and culminated in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan's capitulatio...

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Main Author: Koshiro, Yukiko
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Military policy.
Foreign policy.
Political ideas.
Diplomatic relations.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > International.
HISTORY > Asia > Japan.
15.75 history of Asia.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Japon.
World War, 1939-1945 > Japan.
Soviet Union.
Asia.
Japan.
Japon > Relations exterieures > 1912-1945.
Asie > Relations exterieures > Japon.
Japon > Relations exterieures > Asie.
Japan > Foreign relations > 1912-1945.
Asia > Foreign relations > Japan.
Japan > Foreign relations > Asia.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The World of Japan's Eurasian-Pacific War.
  • Part I. The Place of Russia in Prewar Japan. Communist Ideology and Alliance with the Soviet Union ; Culture and Race: Russians in the Japanese Empire.
  • Part II. Future of East Asia after the Japanese Empire. Mao's Communist Revolution: Who Will Rule China? ; International Rivalry over Divided Korea: Who to Replace Japan?.
  • Part III. Ending the War and Beyond. Cold War Rising: Observing US-Soviet Dissonance Diplomatic Charades with the Soviet Union ; Military Showdown: Ending the War Without Two-Front Battles ; Japan's Surrender: Views of the Nation.
  • Part IV. Inventing Japan's War: Eurasian Eclipse. Memories and Narratives of Japan's War ; Epilogue. Toward a New Understanding of Japan's Eurasian-Pacific War.

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