TY  - GEN
T1  - Imperial eclipse : Japan's strategic thinking about continental Asia before August 1945
T2  - Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
A1  - Koshiro, Yukiko
LA  - English
PP  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
YR  - 2013
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn844164753
AB  - "The "Pacific War" narrative of Japan's defeat that was established after 1945 started with the attack on Pearl Harbor, detailed the U.S. island-hopping campaigns across the Western Pacific, and culminated in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan's capitulation, and its recasting as the western shore of an American ocean. But in the decades leading up to World War II and over the course of the conflict, Japan's leaders and citizens were as deeply concerned about continental Asia--and the Soviet Union, in particular--as they were about the Pacific theater and the United States. In Imperial Eclipse, Yukiko Koshiro reassesses the role that Eurasia played in Japan's diplomatic and military thinking from the turn of the twentieth century to the end of the war. Through unprecedented archival research, Koshiro has located documents and reports expunged from the files of the Japanese Cabinet, ministries of Foreign Affairs and War, and Imperial Headquarters, allowing her to reconstruct Japan's official thinking about its plans for continental Asia. She brings to light new information on the assumptions and resulting plans that Japan's leaders made as military defeat became increasingly certain and the Soviet Union slowly moved to declare war on Japan (which it finally did on August 8, two days after Hiroshima). She also describes Japanese attitudes toward Russia in the prewar years, highlighting the attractions of communism and the treatment of Russians in the Japanese empire; and she traces imperial attitudes toward Korea and China throughout this period. Koshiro's book offers a balanced and comprehensive account of imperial Japan's global ambitions."--Publisher's website.
CN  - DS33.4.J3 K67 2013
SN  - 9780801451805
SN  - 0801451809
SN  - 9780801467752
SN  - 0801467756
SN  - 9780801467745
SN  - 0801467748
KW  - World War, 1939-1945 : Japan.
KW  - Japan : Foreign relations : Asia.
KW  - Asia : Foreign relations : Japan.
KW  - Japan : Foreign relations : 1912-1945.
KW  - Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 : Japon.
KW  - Japon : Relations extérieures : Asie.
KW  - Asie : Relations extérieures : Japon.
KW  - Japon : Relations extérieures : 1912-1945.
KW  - Asie : Relations extérieures.
KW  - 15.75 history of Asia.
KW  - HISTORY : Asia : Japan.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Government : International.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : International Relations : General.
KW  - Diplomatic relations
KW  - Asia
KW  - Japan
KW  - Political ideas.
KW  - Foreign policy.
KW  - Military policy.
KW  - Japan.
KW  - Asia.
KW  - Soviet Union.
KW  - 1912-1945
KW  - 1900-1950.
ER  -