London ; New York : Longman, Date: 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xii, 340 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-324) and index. Contents; Out of isolation -- Racism -- Towards a new Japan -- Japan's outcastes: discrimination then; discrimination now -- 'All citizens are soldiers' -- Unfriendly neighbours: the peoples of Japan and Korea -- Japanese tradition and the curbing of 'dangerous thoughts' -- 'The wish of the dead child'. Women in Japan: a wish denied? -- The Pacific war: 'hakko ichiu' -- Education: from 'the fundamental character of our empire' to the cornerstone of modern Japan -- Swords to ploughshares: Japan since 1945. Subjects; Since 1868. 15.75 history of Asia. HISTORY. JAPAN. SOCIAL HISTORY. 1996. London ; New York : Longman ISBN 0582259622 9780582259621 [IE]

ISBN10: 0582259622, ISBN13: 9780582259621, [publisher: London ; New York : Longman] Hardcover First Edition Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xii, 340 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-324) and index. Contents; Out of isolation -- Racism -- Towards a new Japan -- Japan's outcastes: discrimination then; discrimination now -- 'All citizens are soldiers' -- Unfriendly neighbours: the peoples of Japan and Korea -- Japanese tradition and the curbing of 'dangerous thoughts' -- 'The wish of the dead child'. Women in Japan: a wish denied? -- The Pacific war: 'hakko ichiu' -- Education: from 'the fundamental character of our empire' to the cornerstone of modern Japan -- Swords to ploughshares: Japan since 1945. Subjects; Since 1868. 15.75 history of Asia. HISTORY. JAPAN. SOCIAL HISTORY. 1 Kg.
[New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1996]
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