Showa Japan

Volume One, 1926-41 General Introduction Stephen S. Large Section One Politics and Economics 1. Taisho Democracy as the Pre-Stage for Japanese Militarism Kato Shuichi 2. Depression, Recovery, and War, 1920-1945 Nakamura Takafusa 3. The February 26 Affair: Politics of Military Insurrection Ben-Ami Shillony 4. Urban Voters Sally Ann Hastings 5. Bitter Mortgage: The Economic Consequences of the China Incident Michael A. Barnhart 6. Fascism and the History of Pre-War Japan: The Failure of a Concept Peter Duus and Daniel I. Okimoto Section Two International Relations 7. Conflicting Japanese Loyalties in Manchuria Ian Nish 8. A New Asian Order: Some Notes on Prewar Japanese Nationalism James B. Crowley 9. The Failure of Military Expansion Akira Iriye 10. The Road to Pearl Harbor Fujiwara Akira 11. Emperor Hirohito and Early Showa Japan Stephen S. Large Section Three 12. Women, the State and the Media in Japan in the Early 1930s: Fujo shinbun and the Manchurian Crisis Sandra Wilson 13. The Impact of Military Procurements on the Old Middle Classes in Japan, 1931-1941 Earl H. Kinmouth 14. Ethnic Nationalism and the Romanticism in Early Twentieth Century Japan Kevin M. Doak 15. Ikkoku Shakai-shugi: Sano Manabu and the Limits of Marxism as Cultural Criticism Germaine A. Hoston 16. Intellectuals and Fascism in Early Showa Japan Miles Fletcher Further Reading Volume Two, 1941-1952 Section One: Politics and Economics 1. Wartime Japan: A Military Dictatorship? Ben-Ami Shillony 2. Conclusion Robert E. Ward 3. The Useful War John W. Dower Reflections on the Occupation of Japan Ray A. Moore 5. The Imperial Bureaucracy and Labor Policy in Postwar Japan Sheldon M. Garon Section Two International Relations 6. Wartime Japanese Planning for Post-War Asia Akira Iriye 7. The United States, Japan and the Atomic Bomb Mark Selden 8. Japan's Germ Warfare: The US Cover-up of a War Crime John W. Powell 9. The International Military Tribunal for the Far East and Its Contemporary Resonances R. John Pritchard 10. The Dagger and the Gift: The Impact of the Korean War on Japan Roger Dingman 11. The Legacy of Japanese Colonialism in Korea Bruce Cumings Section Three: Society and Thought 12. An Absence of Change: Women in the Japanese Labor Force, 1937-1945 Janet Hunter 13. The Mobilization of Koreans During the Second World War Michael Weiner 14. Japanese Broadcasting in the Pacific War Gordon Daniels 15. Japanese Writers and the Greater East Asia War Donald Keene 16. From War to Peace John W. Dower 17. Imagining Democracy in Postwar Japan: Reflections on Maruyama Masao and Modernism Andrew E. Barshay Further Reading Volume Three, 1952-1973 Section One: Politics and Economics 1. The Emperor