An Intellectual History of Wartime Japan 1931-1945

ISBN-13: 9780415861670 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 144 str.

Tsurumi

Opis

First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 An Approach to Japan, 1931–1945; Chapter 2 Concerning Tenk?; Chapter 3 Insularity and National Isolation; Chapter 4 National Structure; Chapter 5 Greater Asia; Chapter 6 Patterns of Immobility; Chapter 7 The Korea Within Japan; Chapter 8 Germs of Anti-Stalinism; Chapter 9 The Philosophy of Glorious Self-destruction** The term ‘Gyokusai’ is usually translated as ‘honourable death’, but it does not in fact contain the Japanese word for ‘honour’. ‘Gyoku’ means ‘jewel’, and as a prefix is used metaphorically to mean ‘splendid’, ‘magnificent’, or ‘glorious’. ‘Sai’ means ‘crush’, ‘smash’, or ‘pulverize’. Here the term will be rendered ‘Glorious Self-Destruction’.; Chapter 10 Everyday Life during the War; Chapter 11 As Victims of Atomic Bombs; Chapter 12 The End of the War; Chapter 13 Looking Back;

O autorze

Tsurumi Shunsuke