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Showa

The Japan of Hirohito

Carol Gluck author Stephen R Graubard editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:WW Norton & Co

Published:2nd Feb '94

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

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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.

"Showa is a useful collaborative American-Japanese exercise. Joint ventures can work." -- Daily Mainichi

ISBN: 9780393310641

Dimensions: 236mm x 155mm x 30mm

Weight: 559g

380 pages