Showa - The Japan of Hirohito

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.

About the author

Carol Gluck is George Sansom Professor of History at Columbia University.Stephen R. Graubard is the editor of Daedalus and is professor of history at Brown University.

Summary

The death of Emperor Hirohito in 1989 ended Japan's Showa era (1926–1989) and provided the occasion for the Japanese to confront their past and the roots of their present success.

Product details

• Authors: Ed by Carol Gluck, Carol Gluck
• Assisted by: Carol Gluck (Editor), Stephen Graubard (Editor), Stephen R. Graubard (Editor)
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.08.1993
• EAN: 9780393310641
• ISBN: 978-0-393-31064-1
• No. of pages: 380
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 236 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 559 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Japan, Cultural Studies, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Asian History, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)