Showa : the Japan of Hirohito.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge, MA : American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1990.
Description
298 p. ; 23 cm.

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    "Issued as Volume 119, number 3, of the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences."
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references.
    Contents
    • The idea of Showa / Carol Gluck
    • The Showa era (1926-1989) / Masataka Kosaka
    • The useful war / John W. Dowser
    • The people who invented the mechanical nightingale / Chalmers Johnson
    • Japan meets the United States for the second time / Makoto Iokibe
    • The occupation : some reflections / Herbert Passin
    • Rice and melons : Japanese agriculture in the Showa era / Chikashi Moriguchi
    • Bringing politics back into Japan / Michio Muramatsu
    • Diplomacy and the military in Showa Japan / Shinichi Kitaoka
    • Money and the Japanese / Shoichi Royama
    • The Showa economic experience / Edward J. Lincoln
    • Regional Japan : the price of prosperity and the benefits of dependency / William W. Kelly
    • My-Car-isma : motorizing the Showa self / David W. Plath
    • The intellectual community of the Showa era / Masakazu Yamazaki
    • High culture in the Showa period / J. Thomas Rimer
    • How they have looked to us / Edward Seidensticker.
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    22463674
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    H - U
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