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Author : Robert Tomes
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783375170745
Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.
Author : Matthew Calbraith Perry,Robert Tomes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Japan
ISBN : PRNC:32101074927078
Author : Ben Mezrich
Publisher : Random House
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781448108039
The true story of the Ivy League hedge fund cowboys who gambled with the dangerously high stakes of the Asian stock market. John Malcolm, high school football hero and Princeton graduate made his millions back in the early '90s, a time when dozens of elite young American graduates made their fortunes in hedge funds in the Far East, beating the Japanese at their own game, riding the crashing waves of the Asian stock markets, gambling at impossibly high stakes and winning. Failure meant not only bankruptcy and disgrace à la Nick Leeson, but potentially even death - at the hands of the Japanese Yakuza: one of the world's most notoriously violent organised crime syndicates. Ugly Americans tells Malcolm's story, and that of others like him, in a high octane book, filled with glamour, money and the dangers these incur, this true story is a cross between Mezrich's own best-selling Bringing Down the House and Michael Lewis' Liar's Poker.
Author : Kenneth B. Pyle
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674989085
No nation was more deeply affected by America’s rise to power than Japan. The price paid to end the most intrusive reconstruction of a nation in modern history was a cold war alliance with the U.S. that ensured American dominance in the region. Kenneth Pyle offers a thoughtful history of this relationship at a time when the alliance is changing.
Author : Ronald H. Spector
Publisher : Free Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781982135232
“The best book by far on the Pacific War” (The New York Times Book Review), this classic one-volume history of World War II in the Pacific draws on declassified intelligence files; British, American, and Japanese archival material; and military memoirs to provide a stunning and complete history of the conflict. This “superbly readable, insightful, gripping” (Washington Post Book World) contribution to WWII history combines impeccable research with electrifying detail and offers provocative interpretations of this brutal forty-four-month struggle. Author and historian Ronald H. Spector reassesses US and Japanese strategy and shows that the dual advance across the Pacific by MacArthur and Nimitz was more a pragmatic solution to bureaucratic, doctrinal, and public relations problems facing the Army and Navy than a strategic calculation. He also argues that Japan made its fatal error not in the Midway campaign but in abandoning its offensive strategy after that defeat and allowing itself to be drawn into a war of attrition. Spector skillfully takes us from top-secret strategy meetings in Washington, London, and Tokyo to distant beaches and remote Asian jungles with battle-weary GIs. He reveals that the US had secret plans to wage unrestricted submarine warfare against Japan months before Pearl Harbor and shows that MacArthur and his commanders ignored important intercepts of Japanese messages that would have saved thousands of lives in Papua and Leyte. Throughout, Spector contends that American decisions in the Pacific War were shaped more often by the struggles between the British and the Americans, and between the Army and the Navy, than by strategic considerations. Spector vividly recreates the major battles, little-known campaigns, and unfamiliar events leading up to the deadliest air raid ever, adding a new dimension to our understanding of the American war in the Pacific and the people and forces that determined its outcome.
Author : Gerald Horne
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479848591
The surprising alliance between Japan and pro-Tokyo African Americans during World War II In November 1942 in East St. Louis, Illinois a group of African Americans engaged in military drills were eagerly awaiting a Japanese invasion of the U.S.— an invasion that they planned to join. Since the rise of Japan as a superpower less than a century earlier, African Americans across class and ideological lines had saluted the Asian nation, not least because they thought its very existence undermined the pervasive notion of “white supremacy.” The list of supporters included Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, and particularly W.E.B. Du Bois. Facing the Rising Sun tells the story of the widespread pro-Tokyo sentiment among African Americans during World War II, arguing that the solidarity between the two groups was significantly corrosive to the U.S. war effort. Gerald Horne demonstrates that Black Nationalists of various stripes were the vanguard of this trend—including followers of Garvey and the precursor of the Nation of Islam. Indeed, many of them called themselves “Asiatic”, not African. Following World War II, Japanese-influenced “Afro-Asian” solidarity did not die, but rather foreshadowed Dr. Martin Luther King’s tie to Gandhi’s India and Black Nationalists’ post-1970s fascination with Maoist China and Ho’s Vietnam. Based upon exhaustive research, including the trial transcripts of the pro-Tokyo African Americans who were tried during the war, congressional archives and records of the Negro press, this book also provides essential background for what many analysts consider the coming “Asian Century.” An insightful glimpse into the Black Nationalists’ struggle for global leverage and new allies, Facing the Rising Sun provides a complex, holistic perspective on a painful period in African American history, and a unique glimpse into the meaning of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
Author : Jolyon Baraka Thomas
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226618821
Religious freedom is a founding tenet of the United States, and it has frequently been used to justify policies towards other nations. Such was the case in 1945 when Americans occupied Japan following World War II. Though the Japanese constitution had guaranteed freedom of religion since 1889, the United States declared that protection faulty, and when the occupation ended in 1952, they claimed to have successfully replaced it with “real” religious freedom. Through a fresh analysis of pre-war Japanese law, Jolyon Baraka Thomas demonstrates that the occupiers’ triumphant narrative obscured salient Japanese political debates about religious freedom. Indeed, Thomas reveals that American occupiers also vehemently disagreed about the topic. By reconstructing these vibrant debates, Faking Liberties unsettles any notion of American authorship and imposition of religious freedom. Instead, Thomas shows that, during the Occupation, a dialogue about freedom of religion ensued that constructed a new global set of political norms that continue to form policies today.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:nla08014410
Author : Robert Tomes
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 048313810X
Excerpt from The Americans in Japan: An Abridgement of the Government Narrative of the U. S. Expedition to Japan, Under Commodore Perry Simoda - Its Position The Town, how built and laid out - Advanced Civili zation - Shops and Dwelling Houses - The Exterior - Internal Arrange ments - Lodging Houses - Announcement of Arrivals - Number of Houses and Population - Disproportion of Officials and Digmtaries - Immoral Prac tice of Simodans - Dlet of People - Cultivation of Rice and Gram - The Buddhist Temples - the Sculpture and Paintings - The Devil's Charity Boxes - Grave-yards - Tombs and Epitaphs - The Rio-zen-shi - The Mies The godlike Hashimah - The small Shrines - The Mariners' Temple - The Support of the Church - Neighborhood of Simoda - Its Beauty and Cultiva tion - River Hongo - Japanese Rice-cleaner - Chmete and Health of Simoda - The new Local Government. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Howard B. Schonberger
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0873383826
Index and bibliography included.
Author : Matthew Calbraith Perry,Robert Tomes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Japan
ISBN : OCLC:7251437
Author : Peter Duus,Kenji Hasegawa
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520950375
In this extraordinary collection of writings, covering the period from 1878 to 1989, a wide range of Japanese visitors to the United States offer their vivid, and sometimes surprising perspectives on Americans and American society. Peter Duus and Kenji Hasegawa have selected essays and articles by Japanese from many walks of life: writers and academics, bureaucrats and priests, politicians and journalists, businessmen, philanthropists, artists. Their views often reflect power relations between America and Japan, particularly during the wartime and postwar periods, but all of them dealt with common themes—America’s origins, its ethnic diversity, its social conformity, its peculiar gender relations, its vast wealth, and its cultural arrogance—making clear that while Japanese observers often regarded the U.S. as a mentor, they rarely saw it as a role model.
Author : Andrew C. McKevitt
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469634487
This insightful book explores the intense and ultimately fleeting moment in 1980s America when the future looked Japanese. Would Japan's remarkable post–World War II economic success enable the East Asian nation to overtake the United States? Or could Japan's globe-trotting corporations serve as a model for battered U.S. industries, pointing the way to a future of globalized commerce and culture? While popular films and literature recycled old anti-Asian imagery and crafted new ways of imagining the "yellow peril," and formal U.S.-Japan relations remained locked in a holding pattern of Cold War complacency, a remarkable shift was happening in countless local places throughout the United States: Japanese goods were remaking American consumer life and injecting contemporary globalization into U.S. commerce and culture. What impact did the flood of billions of Japanese things have on the ways Americans produced, consumed, and thought about their place in the world? From autoworkers to anime fans, Consuming Japan introduces new unorthodox actors into foreign-relations history, demonstrating how the flow of all things Japanese contributed to the globalizing of America in the late twentieth century.
Author : Bradford Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015010316084
Author : Kiichi Fujiwara,Yoshiko Nagano
Publisher : National University of Singapore Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : UCSD:31822038192316
Japan and the Philippines both spent part of the 20th century under American rule, and the experience left an indelible imprint on both societies. The authors in this volume examine the issue from a wide range of perspectives and suggest a different interpretation.