Hirohito - The Showa Emperor in War and Peace

Informationen zum Autor Ikuhiko Hata received his PhD in modern history from the University of Tokyo. Now retired, he has been chief historian at Japan's Ministry of Finance and has taught at the universities of Takushoku, Chiba and Nihon. He has also taught at Princeton and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. In 1993, he was awarded the Kikuchi Kan Prize. He is the author of Nankin jiken ( The Nanking Incident ), Showashi no nazo o ou ( The Riddles of Showa-era History ) and Ianfu to Senjo no Sei ( Comfort women in the battlefield ). He also contributed a chapter on 'Continental Expansion' in Vol. VI of the Cambridge History of Japan , and is the author of many other works. Klappentext 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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: HATA, Ikuhiko Hata, Hata Ikuhiko, Hata/ Jansen Ikuhiko
• Mitarbeit: Jansen (Herausgeber), Marius B Jansen (Herausgeber), Marius B. Jansen (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.09.2007
• EAN: 9781905246359
• ISBN: 978-1-905246-35-9
• Abmessung: 150 mm x 225 mm x 27 mm
• Serie: Global Oriental
• Thema: Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Biographien, Autobiographien