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Books on: "world war 1939 1945 japan" OR (japan AND "world war")

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The Defeat of Japan

Book by David Rees; Praeger Publishers, 1997

Subjects:

Pacific Ocean--History, World Politics--1933-1945, World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Ocean, World War, 1939-1945--Japan

Collections: History, Entire Library

Following the Pearl Harbor attack Imperial Japanese contingents overran large areas of Southeast Asia and the Pacific until checked by U.S. forces at Midway and Guadalcanal. This book demonstrates how America and the British Commonwealth were able to evolve and apply a victorious strategy in very ...
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Following the Pearl Harbor attack Imperial Japanese contingents overran large areas of Southeast Asia and the Pacific until checked by U.S. forces at Midway and Guadalcanal. This book demonstrates how America and the British Commonwealth were able to evolve and apply a victorious strategy in very difficult military circumstances. The Pacific struggle is put in its full international context. Events in China, Anglo-American diplomatic efforts to bring Russia into the war against Japan, and the development and decision to use the atomic bomb are all described. The Japanese response to strategic reverses during 1944-45 is related, as is the way that Emperor Hirohito personally intervened with his militarist government in August 1945 to end the Pacific War. The result of all these converging events was the "Journey to the Missouri" made by the Japanese government and High Command on 2 September 1945 when the instrument of surrender was signed in Tokyo Bay. An epilogue describes how this uniquely bitter struggle,had a successful sequel in the occupation of Japan.
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Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan

Book by J. Samuel Walker; University of North Carolina Press, 1997

Subjects:

Atomic Bomb, Truman, Harry S.--1884-1972, United States--Foreign Relations--1945-1953, World War, 1939-1945--Japan, World War, 1939-1945--United States

Collections: History, Entire Library

...1939-1945 -- United States. 2. World War, 1939- 1945 -- Japan. 3. Atomic bomb. 4. United States...use atomic weapons against Japan in 1945, presumably because...an expert on and admirer of Japan, which was an important part...
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Hirohito and War: Imperial Tradition and Military Decision Making in Prewar Japan

Book by Peter Wetzler; University of Hawaii Press, 1998

Subjects:

Hirohito--Emperor Of Japan--1901-, Japan--Intellectual Life--20th Century, Japan--Politics And Government--1926-1945, Military Planning--Japan, World War, 1939-1945--Japan

Collections: History, Entire Library

...8248-1925-X alk. paper 1. World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan. 2. Hirohito, Emperor of Japan...racial equality put forward by Japan was not something the Allies...as a world power. 40 In Japan during the late 1930s and early...
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The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb

Book by Dennis D. Wainstock; Praeger, 1996

Subjects:

Atomic Bomb, Truman, Harry S.--1884-1972, United States--Foreign Relations--1945-1953, World War, 1939-1945--Japan, World War, 1939-1945--United States

Collections: History, Entire Library

This book is a balanced account of the political, diplomatic, and military currents that influenced Japan's attempts to surrender and the United States's decision to drop the atomic bombs. Based on extensive research in both the United States and Japan, this book allows the reader to follow the ...
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This book is a balanced account of the political, diplomatic, and military currents that influenced Japan's attempts to surrender and the United States's decision to drop the atomic bombs. Based on extensive research in both the United States and Japan, this book allows the reader to follow the parallel decision-making in Tokyo and Washington that contributed to lost opportunities that might have allowed a less brutal conclusion to the war. Topics discussed and analyzed include Japan's desperate military situation; its decision to look to the Soviet Union to mediate the conflict; the Manhattan Project; the debates within Truman's Administration and the armed forces as to whether to modify unconditional surrender terms to include retention of Emperor Hirohito and whether to plan for the invasion of Japan's home islands or to rely instead on blockade and bombing to force the surrender.
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Japanese Empire in the Tropics: Selected Documents and Reports of the Japanese Period in Sarawak, Northwest Borneo, 1941-1945

Book by Keat Gin Ooi; Ohio University Press, 1998

Subjects:

Sarawak--History--Sources, World War, 1939-1945--Japan--Sources, World War, 1939-1945--Malaysia--Sarawak--Sources, World War, 1939-1945--Personal Narratives, Malaysian--Sources

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Sarawak -- History -- Sources. 4. World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Sources. I. Ooi, Keat Gin...before 15 December 1941 in Japan and in Sarawak, the former preparing...while facing in the direction of Japan, bowing to the picture of the...

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Journal Articles on: "world war 1939 1945 japan" OR (japan AND "world war")

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World War II in Social Studies and Science Curricula

Journal article by Victor J. Mayer; Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 81, 2000

Subjects:

High schools--Curricula, History--Study and teaching, Nuclear warfare--Portrayals, depictions, etc., World War, 1939-1945--Japan

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...1996, I had the good fortune of living in Japan and working on a project in global education...global education project that took me to Japan. I have met and talked with a number of...literature from the immediate postwar era in Japan. These readings, conversations, and experiences...
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The GI War against Japan: American Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific during World War II

Journal article by Aaron William Moore; Journal of East Asian Studies, Vol. 7, 2007

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The GI War Against Japan: American Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific During World War II (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

The GI War against Japan: American Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific...Aaron William Moore The GI War Against Japan: American Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific...invaluable resource for modern historians of Japan, the Pacific Islands (particularly the...
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Apologies for Atrocities: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of World War II's End in the United States and Japan

Journal article by Kyoko Kishimoto; American Studies International, Vol. 42, 2004

Subjects:

World War II, 1939-1945--History

Collections: Entire Library

...agreed to apologize for World War II" and "Japan expresses deep remorse for the unbearable...neighbors, especially Korea and China, Japan during World War II was a brutal aggressor...bombing symbolizes the victimization of Japan in World War II, the actual victims of...
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World War II and the Japanese in the Prewar Philippines

Journal article by Lydia N. Yu-Jose; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 27, 1996

Subjects:

Greater East Asia co-prosperity sphere--Political aspects, Japan--Relations with Philippines, Japanese in Philippines--History, Philippines--History, World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...Japanese residing in this Asian neighbour of Japan had for years been fighting their own little...postponement of Philippine independence. Japan was hoping that problems with the Philippines...Philippines, due to its geographical proximity to Japan and its rich natural resources, was unavoidably...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt and World War II

Journal article by Warren F. Kimball; Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 34, 2004

Subjects:

Roosevelt, Franklin D.--Military aspects, United States history--Analysis, War--Case studies, War--Military aspects, War--Political aspects, Wars--Case studies, Wars--Military aspects, Wars--Political aspects, World War II, 1939-1945--History, World War II, 1939-1945--Military aspects, World War II, 1939-1945--Political aspects

Collections: History, Entire Library

...and the United States). On the fringe was Japan, which had enhanced its empire during the...would face the German threat first, leaving Japan to create what it euphemistically called...War, even going to the extreme of forcing Japan to fight and then allowing the American...

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Magazine Articles on: "world war 1939 1945 japan" OR (japan AND "world war")

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Banzai! Cartoons of the Great East Asia War: Mark Bryant Looks at the Cartoons Published in Imperial Japan during the Second World War

Magazine article by Mark Bryant; History Today, Vol. 58, January 2008

Subjects:

Japan (World War II)--Social aspects, Japan--Political aspects, Japan--Social aspects, Political cartoons--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Looks at the Cartoons Published in Imperial Japan during the Second World War. by Mark...the New Order. ILLUSTRATION OMITTED When Japan entered the Second World War in December...Yomiuri Shimbun (in association with the Japan Cartoonists Association) set up an annual...
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Hiroshima: Historians Reassess

Magazine article by Gar Alperovitz; Foreign Policy, Summer 1995

Subjects:

Atomic bomb--Usage, Hiroshima, Japan--Bombings, Military policy--1945, Nuclear weapons--Usage, Truman, Harry S.--Military policy, World War, 1939-1945--Japan

Collections: Entire Library

...was the only way to avoid an invasion of Japan that might have cost many more lives...the emperor. He wrote in his 1961 work Japan Subdued: The Atomic Bomb and the End of...his willingness to join the war against Japan at this time, a rather odd idea that many...
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Victory at Sea: Recent Movies ... Have Vididly Depicted the Face of Land Battle in the Second World War, but the Story of the American War Is Incomplete without the Sweep and Strategic Stakes of the War at Sea

Magazine article by David M. Kennedy; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 283, March 1999

Subjects:

Air warfare, Japan--History, Japanese history, Naval warfare, World War II, 1939-1945

Collections: Entire Library

...who never laid eyes on an enemy ship. Japan would in time pay a horrific price for...war against Germany, like its war against Japan, began at sea, and began just as badly...wantonly in the systematic firebombing of Japan. On January 7, 1945, Air Force General...
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Tsuneko, Heroine of the Untold World War II Tsushima Maru Tragedy

Magazine article by Dave Bartruff; World and I, Vol. 19, November 2004

Subjects:

Heroes--1944 AD, Heroes--Appreciation, Japan (World War II)--1944 AD, Miyagi, Tsuneko--Appreciation

Collections: Entire Library

...Kyushu, one of the four main islands of Japan. Better yet, she was not traveling alone...advancing ever closer to the home islands of Japan itself. The Japanese governments evacuation...late 1944 when the war was turning against Japan and the fear of invasion was imminent...
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The Lessons of World War II: War Must Be Limited

Magazine article by J. Bryan Hehir; Commonweal, Vol. 122, August 18, 1995

Subjects:

Bosnia-Herzegovina--Military aspects, Hiroshima, Japan--Bombings, War--Moral and ethical aspects, World War, 1939-1945--Moral and ethical aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...qualities. First, it has a kind of common-sense character: Japan had lost the war, but its military was prepared to resist with...targeted. On that distinction hangs the moral logic of war. World War 11 violated the logic in pursuit of a great good; it is less...

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Newspaper Articles on: "world war 1939 1945 japan" OR (japan AND "world war")

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Bush Compares Conflict in Iraq to World War II; Troops Told to Use Same Resolve That Beat Japan 60 Years Ago

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 31, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Troops Told to Use Same Resolve That Beat Japan 60 Years Ago. Byline: Joseph Curl...kind of resolve that led to the defeat of Japan. At celebrations ahead of the 60th anniversary...to turn it into a democratic ally like Japan after its 1945 surrender. "Franklin Roosevelt...
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EMPIRE OF THE SAVAGES; Too Scarred to Speak of Their Nightmarish Ordeals, Allied Prisoners of Japan Became the Forgotten Men of World War II. Here, at Last, They Tell Their Stories - and Reveal the True Brutality of Their Sadistic Captors . .

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 5, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Nightmarish Ordeals, Allied Prisoners of Japan Became the Forgotten Men of World War II...the first to surrender as the armies of Japan unleashed their attack on Far Eastern lands...Philippines collapsed like dominoes. In all, Japan took 132,142 Allied prisoners. More than...
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City's Salute to Victory; Veterans Recall the End of World War II

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), July 11, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the end of the war, both in Europe and Japan. It began at the Cenotaph at St Georges...liberation of Europe and the defeat of Japan and a chance to thank the veterans who...leaders, representatives from Germany and Japan and veterans and their families took part...
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Flashback Best Party Ever; Rachael Tinniswood on How Britain Will Commemorate the Ending of World War II

Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), July 9, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...in Europe (VE) Day and VJ (Victory over Japan) Day. VE Day, in particular, was a momentous...years old and living in Langton Road when World War II started. My father worked at Nobletts...after it was bombed during the Second World War, the same time as that great music hall...
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Ordinary Folk Embroiled in War; from the Potting Sheds to the Palaces, Everyone Was Drawn into World War II - So Its History Belongs to Us All. in Association with LIVERPOOL

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), June 18, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...and the "divine" Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, were not only making war against countries...dead 4.8m (many in concentration camps). Japan: Military and civilian dead, about 2m...One persons weekly rations at the end of World War II; Jack Sharkey, who was a Japanese prisoner...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: "world war 1939 1945 japan" OR (japan AND "world war")

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World War II

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Germany, disappointed Italy, and ambitious Japan were anxious to regain or increase their...2004), and Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944 45 (2008); R. Spector, Eagle against...Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan (2005); B. Shepherd, War in the Wild...
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World War I

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...In the following weeks Montenegro and Japan joined the Allies (Great Britain, France...economy. Aftermath and Reckoning World War I and the resulting peace treaties (see...treaties were partially responsible for World War II . Yet when World War I ended, the immense...
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Japan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...World War II erupted (1939) in Europe, Japan signed a military alliance with Germany...1951, a peace treaty was signed between Japan and most of its opponents in World War...1997); J. W. Dower, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (1999); R...
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Zaibatsu

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...banking and industrial combines of modern Japan. The leading zaibatsu (called keiretsu...strategic semiofficial enterprises in Japan and abroad, particularly in Taiwan and...on the part of these groups in the post World War II era to pool their resources greatly...
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Reparations

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...were arranged through separate treaties. Japan also had to pay reparations after World...administered removal of capital goods from Japan, and the USSR seized Japanese assets in...The United States ended collections from Japan in 1949 and renounced further claims in...

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