War Conflict And Security In Japan And Asia Pacific 1941 1952

Author : Louis Allen
Publisher : Global Oriental
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004212763

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War, Conflict and Security in Japan and Asia Pacific, 1941-1952 by Louis Allen Pdf

It was Louis Allen’s work on Japan which dominated his prodigious output as a scholar, researcher and writer and which received greatest attention internationally. This collection of his writings focuses entirely on his principal fields of research, viz, Japan and the Pacific War, the post-war conflicts in Burma, Malaya and Indochina, and the immediate post-war years in the context of Japan, security and reconciliation. Importantly, in addition to the 24 essays brought together here from both known and unknown sources, we are pleased to publish for the first time Louis Allen’s own undated autobiographical paper entitled ‘Innocents Abroad: Investigating War Crimes in South-East Asia’, providing a unique, first-hand account of his war-time life and activities. This volume also includes a complete bibliography of Louis Allen’s writings covering all disciplines.

Author : Edwin Palmer Hoyt
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Japan
ISBN : 0091681308

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Japan's War by Edwin Palmer Hoyt Pdf

Tracing the history of Japanese aggression from 1853 onward, Hoyt masterfully examines the issues behind the war in the Pacific and sheds new light on the China Question, the rape of Hong Kong, the Bataan Death March, and the murder camps of the East Indies.

Author : Jeffrey Record
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Japan
ISBN : UOM:39015075650229

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Japan's Decision for War in 1941 by Jeffrey Record Pdf

Author : Edwin Palmer Hoyt
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105080903540

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Japan's War by Edwin Palmer Hoyt Pdf

Tracing the history of Japanese aggression from 1853 onward, Hoyt masterfully addresses some of the biggest questions left from the Pacific front of World War II.

Author : Sidney L. Pash
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813144245

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The Currents of War by Sidney L. Pash Pdf

From 1899 until the American entry into World War II, U.S. presidents sought to preserve China's territorial integrity in order to guarantee American businesses access to Chinese markets -- a policy famously known as the "open door." Before the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, Americans saw Japan as the open door's champion; but by the end of 1905, Tokyo had replaced St. Petersburg as its greatest threat. For the next thirty-six years, successive U.S. administrations worked to safeguard China and contain Japanese expansion on the mainland. The Currents of War reexamines the relationship between the United States and Japan and the casus belli in the Pacific through a fresh analysis of America's central foreign policy strategy in Asia. In this ambitious and compelling work, Sidney Pash offers a cautionary tale of oft-repeated mistakes and miscalculations. He demonstrates how continuous economic competition in the Asia-Pacific region heightened tensions between Japan and the United States for decades, eventually leading to the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Pash's study is the first full reassessment of pre--World War II American-Japanese diplomatic relations in nearly three decades. It examines not only the ways in which U.S. policies led to war in the Pacific but also how this conflict gave rise to later confrontations, particularly in Korea and Vietnam. Wide-ranging and meticulously researched, this book offers a new perspective on a significant international relationship and its enduring consequences.

Author : Stephen S. Large
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0415143217

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Shōwa Japan: 1941-1952 by Stephen S. Large Pdf

Author : Antony Best
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136156533

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Britain, Japan and Pearl Harbour by Antony Best Pdf

Recent controversies about Pearl Harbour have highlighted the need for a new assessment of British policy towards Japan during the period leading up to the Pacific War. Britain, Japan and Pearl Harbour provides a thorough and authoritative account of British efforts to avert conflict with Japan, and makes use of the most recently released material from British archives, including information from intelligence sources. This is the most comprehensive study so far of British policy towards East Asia in this period. It illustrates the extent of British weakness in the region and the degree to which the constant need to appease American opinion hamstrung Britain's ability to achieve an understanding with Japan.

Author : Akira Iriye
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317871279

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The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific by Akira Iriye Pdf

Professor Iriye analyses the origins of the 1941 conflict against the background of international relations in the preceding decade in order to answer the key question: Why did Japan decide to go to war against so formidable a combination of powers?

Author : Gregg Huff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107099333

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The Economics of World War II in Southeast Asia by Gregg Huff Pdf

The first comprehensive account of the impact of Japanese occupation on Southeast Asian economies and societies during World War II.

Author : Philip Woods
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350271654

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Managing the Media in the India-Burma War, 1941-1945 by Philip Woods Pdf

This book explores how the media was used by the armed forces during the India-Burma campaigns of WWII to project the most positive image to domestic and international audiences of a war that often seemed neglected or misunderstood. Discussing how soldiers were, for the first time, able to access newspapers and radio broadcasts relating stories of the campaigns they were actively fighting in, Managing the Media in the India-Burma War reveals not only the impact that the media had in maintaining troop morale, but how the military recognised that the media could be a valuable arm of warfare. Revealing how troops responded to reports of their operations, Philip Woods demonstrates the role of the media in creating the 'Forgotten Army' syndrome, which came about in the last two years of the Burma campaign. Focusing on the British Media, but with examples from the United States and India, including Indian war correspondents, it discusses India's role in the Second World War in relation to social, economic and political developments at the time. Honing in on India and Burma at a turning point in their road to independence, this book offers a fresh angle on a well-known military conflict, unpicks the various constraints and influences on the media in wartime, and links the campaign to India's crucial role in WWII.

Author : Kerstin von Lingen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319531410

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Debating Collaboration and Complicity in War Crimes Trials in Asia, 1945-1956 by Kerstin von Lingen Pdf

This innovative volume examines the nexus between war crimes trials and the pursuit of collaborators in post-war Asia. Global standards of behaviour in time of war underpinned the prosecution of Japanese military personnel in Allied courts in Asia and the Pacific. Japan’s contradictory roles in the Second World War as brutal oppressor of conquered regions in Asia and as liberator of Asia from both Western colonialism and stultifying tradition set the stage for a tangled legal and political debate: just where did colonized and oppressed peoples owe their loyalties in time of war? And where did the balance of responsibility lie between individuals and nations? But global standards jostled uneasily with the pluralism of the Western colonial order in Asia, where legal rights depended on race and nationality. In the end, these limits led to profound dissatisfaction with the trials process, despite its vast scale and ambitious intentions, which has implications until today.

Author : Raymond A. Callahan
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700624270

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Triumph at Imphal-Kohima by Raymond A. Callahan Pdf

In the spring of 1944, on the eastern front of India near the Burmese border, the seemingly unstoppable Imperial Japanese Army suffered the worst defeat in its history at the hands of Lieutenant General William Slim's British XIV Army, most of whose units were drawn from the little-esteemed Indian Army. Triumph at Imphal-Kohima tells the largely unknown story of how an army that Winston Churchill had once dismissed as “a welter of lassitude and inefficiency” came to achieve such an unlikely, unprecedented, and critical victory for the Allied forces in World War II. Long the British Empire's strategic reserve, the Indian Army had been comprehensively defeated in Malaya and Burma in 1941–1943. Military historian Raymond Callahan chronicles the remarkable exercise in institutional transformation that remade the British Indian forces to reverse those losses. With the invaluable help of the American DC-3 on the Burma front, Slim overhauled the British XIV Army with the Imperial Japanese Army's strategic weaknesses in mind; namely, an utter disregard for logistics and an unrelenting addiction to the attack. Callahan shows how, on an enormous battlefield—over five hundred miles from north to south—the XIV Army surmounted the challenges of terrain, disease, wretched communication, and climate to draw the Imperial forces under Lieutenant General Mutaguchi Renya ever deeper into ever stronger British defensive arrays until the Japanese Army's vaunted offensive aggression finally exhausted itself. Following this epic battle from build-up to aftermath, this book brings overdue detailed attention to Lieutenant General William Slim's handling of perhaps the most complex battle any Allied commander fought during World War II—and to the long-belittled British Indian Army that became the magnificent fighting force that triumphed at Imphal-Kohima and went on to reconquer Burma.

Author : Augustine Kobayashi,Quest Publications
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1532859465

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Japan's Pacific War by Augustine Kobayashi,Quest Publications Pdf

In Decemeber 1941, WW2 became a truly global war with Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, dragging the US into the war both in Europe and Asia. What is not widely known is that war had been going on since 1931 in Asia, provoked by Japan seeking dominance of Asia. Why Japan chose such aggressive course of action is even less well understood. This book seeks to explain how Japan's internal conditions and external relations led her to a war in Asia that would in turn lead to a head-on collision with the US and the Western colonial powers. Japan did not plan for such a general conflict with the entire West. Japan's frustration at the failure to defeat China, however, made her decide that they had no choice but to fight the US also. Japanese strategic thinking was thus still very premature, with Japanese military leaders unable to think through the likely consequences of such a course of action; they certainly did not have flexibility to adjust to changing strategic environment due to change of technology, economic balance and the sheer commitment of the US to the war aim of completely defeating Japan. Neglecting war logistics and obsessed with the idea of decisive fleet action, the Japanese were worn down by the increasing air and naval power of the US and was crushed in the end. Such outcome had been anticipated by the Western Allies in their war studies before the 1940s. Hence the tragedy is Japan's failure to come up with any effective scheme to defeat American strategy. Defeated comprehensively in war of logistics, starving Japanese soldiers acted badly everywhere, a legacy of WW2 in Asia which Japan has to live with even today. Read more: http: //www.quest-publications.com/books/japans-pacific-war/

Author : John Chapman
Publisher : Global Oriental
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004212787

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Ultranationalism in German-Japanese Relations, 1930-1945 by John Chapman Pdf

This important new study focusing on the ultranationalist regimes in Germany and Japan during the 1930s and 1940s examines in biographical format the roles played by individuals significantly involved in the drive for global hegemony. It employing a considerable range of new source materials and eyewitness testimony.

Author : Galen Roger Perras
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0774809906

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Stepping Stones to Nowhere by Galen Roger Perras Pdf

The Aleutian Islands, a mostly forgotten portion of the United States on the southwest coast of Alaska, have often assumed a key role in American military strategy. This work examines the Japanese occupation of the western Aleutians, which climaxed in the horrendous battle for Attu.