Showa The Japan of Hirohito

by Gluck, Carol; Graubard, Stephen R.

• ISBN13: 9780393310641
• ISBN10: 0393310647
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-08-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Stephen R. Graubard
Introduction	xi
Carol Gluck
The Idea of Showa	1	(26)
Carol Gluck
The Showa Era (1926--1989)	27	(22)
Masataka Kosaka
The Useful War	49	(22)
John W. Dower
The People Who Invented the Mechanical Nightingale	71	(20)
Chalmers Johnson
Japan Meets the United States for the Second Time	91	(16)
Makoto Iokibe
The Occupation---Some Reflections	107	(24)
Herbert Passin
Rice and Melons---Japanese Agriculture in the Showa Era	131	(10)
Chikashi Moriguchi
Bringing Politics Back into Japan	141	(14)
Michio Muramatsu
Diplomacy and the Military in Showa Japan	155	(22)
Shinichi Kitaoka
Money and the Japanese	177	(14)
Shoichi Royama
The Showa Economic Experience	191	(18)
Edward J. Lincoln
Regional Japan: The Price of Prosperity and the Benefits of Dependency	209	(20)
William W. Kelly
My-Car-isma: Motorizing the Showa Self	229	(16)
David W. Plath
The Intellectual Community of the Showa Era	245	(20)
Masakazu Yamazaki
High Culture in the Showa Period	265	(14)
J. Thomas Rimer
How They Have Looked to Us	279	(20)
Edward Seidensticker
Index	299