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From the First Alliance to Post 9/11
Edited by Alessio Patalano
KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON
KEY FEATURE(S) This thought-provoking volume explores how, across more than a century, sea power empowered both the UK and Japan with a defensive shield, an instrument of deterrence, and an enabling tool in expeditionary missions to implement courses of actions to preserve national economic and security interests worldwide.
Furthermore, it expands the boundaries of the literature beyond the alliance period by exploring the strategic rationale underpinning the countries’ military policies since the end of the nineteenth c... |
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From Wenneker to Sasakawa
John Chapman
GLASGOW UNIVERSITY
KEY FEATURE(S) This important new study focusing on the ultranationalist regimes in Germany and Japan during the 1930s and 1940s examines in biographical format the roles played by individuals significantly involved in the drive for global hegemony.
Employing a considerable range of new source materials and eyewitness testimony on the German side, it highlights the roles of the Nazi Party ‘enforcer’ and Gestapo representative in East Asia, Josef ... |
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The Writings of Louis Allen
Louis Allen
KEY FEATURE(S) It was Louis Allen’s work on Japan which dominated his prodigious output as a scholar, researcher and writer and which received greatest attention internationally. This collection of his writings focuses entirely on his principal fields of research, viz, Japan and the Pacific War, the post-war conflicts in Burma, Malaya and Indochina, and the immediate post-war years in the context of Japan, security and reconciliation.
Importantly, in addition to the 24 essays brought together here from both known and unknown sources, we are pleased to publish for the first time Louis Allen’s own undated autobiographical paper entit... |
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The Occupation-era Correspondence of Kichisaburo Nomura
Compiled, edited, and with an Introduction by Peter Mauch
RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY
KEY FEATURE(S) This volume is the result of a recent important historical discovery, namely the personal papers of Kichisaburo Nomura – one-time foreign minister, pre-Pearl Harbor ambassador to the United States, and ‘spiritual godfather’ of post-war Japan’s Maritime Self-Defence Force. Reproduced here are Nomura’s Occupation-era correspondence with his American friends and associates ( a total of 84 letters).
The correspondence includes letters to/from Navy Secretary Daniel Kimball, SCAP political adviser William Sebald, former ambassadors William Castle and Joseph Grew, Army and Navy Journal owner John Ca... |
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EDITED and with an INTRODUCTION and ANNOTATIONS by Nigel Brailey
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
KEY FEATURE(S) First published in translation from the Japanese in 1952 prior to his mysterious disappearance in Laos in the 1960s, and long out of print, Colonel Tsuji’s account of his escape into Thailand (where he became a monk) from the Japanese surrender in Bangkok in 1945, and then finding his way into China before returning to Japan in 1948, is a highly entertaining and fascinating story, which has its place in the military history of the period.
‘The sights I saw and the things I heard in an Asia, writhing and struggling in a storm of Communism, form the contents of this book.’
Controversially Tsuji, who according to Louis Allen, was res... |
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Ian Nish
LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
KEY FEATURE(S) The author was a member of the British Occupation Force in Japan as part of the Allied occupation following the Asia-Pacific War. During the years he was there, 1946-48, he collected a number of documents which throw light on the attitudes of the Japanese people in the last two critical years of the war and the equally critical first two years of the peace.
The author was a member of the British Occupation Force in Japan as part of the Allied occupation following the Asia-Pacific War. During the years he was there, 1946-48, he collected a number of docum... |
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Issues of History and Identity
Guy Podoler
UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA
KEY FEATURE(S) A considerable amount of writing has been published on Japan at war in World War II, and more recently scholars have been revisiting the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5; whereas this volume strives to examine Japan’s twentieth-century approach to war and militarism in a wider perspective, bringing hitherto unexamined new themes and subject-matter under scrutiny up to the present day.
A considerable amount of writing has been published on Japan at war in World War II, and more recently scholars have been revisiting the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5; whereas this volume strives to ex... |
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The story of the Japanese Imperial Army’s longest WWII survivor in the field and later life
Omi Hatashin
KEY FEATURE(S) In 1972, when discovered by local hunters on Guam, former tailor Yokoi was widely reported as a ‘no surrender man’ who survived, living up to the old Japanese military code of honour.
This book is about the reality of such a man (and the ingenuity he applied to ensure his survival), which is very different from the stereotype. The first part is the English translation of his own au... |
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Hata Ikuhiko
CHIBA UNIVERSITY
KEY FEATURE(S) This is a most important new work of Japanese scholarship on Emperor Hirohito, the English edition having been long delayed following the untimely death of distinguished American historian Marius B.Jansen (Emeritus Professor, Princeton) in December 2000, who had been actively collaborating with David Noble in the translation of Hata Ikuhiko’s original study in Japanese, first published in 1984.
In his extended Foreword as editor, referring to the nature of Hirohito’s power, Jansen states: ‘We are left with puzzles that will probably never be resolved. Clearly, as Professor Hata and others ha... |
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The Global Consequences following Germany’s sinking of the SS Automedon
in 1940
Eiji Seki
KEY FEATURE(S) The saga of the sinking of the ill-fated SS Automedon of the Blue Funnel Line in November 1940 by Germany's commerce raider Atlantis is already well known, but the author argues that this new study not only deals with all the inaccuracies so far reported, but offers significant new research.
The saga of the sinking of the ill-fated SS Automedon of the Blue Funnel Line in November 1940 by Germany's commerce raider Atlantis is already well known, but the author argues that this new study no... |
