Серия "Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power"

In this first social and cultural history of Japan&apos;s construction of Manchuria, Louise Young offers an incisive examination of the nature of Japanese imperialism. Focusing on the domestic impact of Japan&apos;s activities in Northeast China between 1931 and 1945, Young considers «metropolitan effects» of empire building: how people at home imagined and experienced the empire they called Manchukuo.<br /><br />Contrary to the conventional assumption that a few army officers and...

Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan examines the political role played by working men and women in prewar Tokyo and offers a reinterpretation of the broader dynamics of Japan&apos;s prewar political history. Gordon argues that such phenomena as riots, labor disputes, and union organizing can best be understood as part of an early twentieth-century movement for «imperial democracy» shaped by the nineteenth-century drive to promote capitalism and build a modern nation and empire. When...

Remembering Hiroshima, the city obliterated by the world&apos;s first nuclear attack, has been a complicated and intensely politicized process, as we learn from Lisa Yoneyama&apos;s sensitive investigation of the «dialectics of memory.» She explores unconventional texts and dimensions of culture involved in constituting Hiroshima memories—including history textbook controversies, discourses on the city&apos;s tourism and urban renewal projects, campaigns to preserve atomic ruins, survivors&apos;...