This collection of essays highlights the resemblances between wartime, postwar and contemporary Japan. The essays are particularly concerned with the nature of Japanese capitalism and the country's nationalistic doctrines of racial superiority.
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This collection of essays highlights the resemblances between wartime, postwar and contemporary Japan. The essays are particularly concerned with the nature of Japanese capitalism and the country's nationalistic doctrines of racial superiority.
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Add this copy of Japan in War & Peace to cart. $12.77, good condition, Sold by Bookmans rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Tucson, AZ, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by Fontana Press.
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Very Good. 8vo. x, 368pp, index, sources, bw ills. Or card covers. Light even toning to page edges. Looks at subjects as diverse as Japan's wartime cinema, the country's attempts to acquire the atomic bomb, the social upheaval revealed in the wartime records of the Thought Police, the social effects of American occupation and how Japan's post-War economic success goes beyond the popular images of Japanese culture.
