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Auteur(s) : Koshiro, Yukiko. Auteur du texte
Titre(s) : Imperial eclipse [Texte imprimé] : Japan's strategic thinking about continental Asia before august 1945 / Yukiko Koshiro
Publication : Ithaca (N.Y.) : Cornell university press, 2013
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xvi-311 p.) : cartes ; 25 cm
Collection : Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute / Columbia university
Lien à la collection : Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute (Columbia university)
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"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 capitulation, and its recasting as the western shore of an American ocean.
But in the decades leading up to World War II and over the course of the conflict,
Japan's leaders and citizens were as deeply concerned about continental Asia--and
the Soviet Union, in particular--as they were about the Pacific theater and the United
States. In Imperial Eclipse, Yukiko Koshiro reassesses the role that Eurasia played
in Japan's diplomatic and military thinking from the turn of the twentieth century
to the end of the war. Through unprecedented archival research, Koshiro has located
documents and reports expunged from the files of the Japanese Cabinet, ministries
of Foreign Affairs and War, and Imperial Headquarters, allowing her to reconstruct
Japan's official thinking about its plans for continental Asia. She brings to light
new information on the assumptions and resulting plans that Japan's leaders made as
military defeat became increasingly certain and the Soviet Union slowly moved to declare
war on Japan (which it finally did on August 8, two days after Hiroshima). She also
describes Japanese attitudes toward Russia in the prewar years, highlighting the attractions
of communism and the treatment of Russians in the Japanese empire; and she traces
imperial attitudes toward Korea and China throughout this period. Koshiro's book offers
a balanced and comprehensive account of imperial Japan's global ambitions."--Publisher's
website
Sujet(s) : Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) -- Origines -- Japon
Politique et gouvernement -- Japon -- 1912-1945
Relations -- Japon -- Eurasie -- 1900-1945
Relations -- Eurasie -- Japon -- 1900-1945
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780801451805 (cloth) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0801451809 (cloth) (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43660852m
Notice n° :
FRBNF43660852
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