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Book Synopsis Showa 1926-1939: by : Shigeru Mizuki
Download or read book Showa 1926-1939: written by Shigeru Mizuki and published by Drawn & Quarterly. This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating period in Japanese History explored by a master of manga Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan is the first volume of Shigeru Mizuki’s meticulously researched historical portrait of twentieth century Japan. This volume deals with the period leading up to World War II, a time of high unemployment and other economic hardships caused by the Great Depression. Mizuki’s photo-realist style effortlessly brings to life Japan of the 1920s and 1930s, depicting bustling city streets and abandoned graveyards with equal ease. When the Showa Era began, Mizuki himself was just a few years old, so his earliest memories coincide with the earliest events of the Era. With his trusty narrator Rat Man, Mizuki brings history into the realm of the personal, making it palatable, and indeed compelling, for young audiences as well as more mature readers. As he describes the militarization that leads up to World War II, Mizuki’s stance toward war is thoughtful and often downright critical – his portrayal of the Nanjing Massacre clearly paints the incident (a disputed topic within Japan) as an atrocity. Mizuki’s Showa 1926-1939 is a beautifully told history that tracks how technological developments and the country’s shifting economic stability had a role in shaping Japan’s foreign policy in the early twentieth century. Translated from the Japanese by Zack Davisson.
Book Synopsis Emperor Hirohito and Showa Japan by : Stephen Large
Download or read book Emperor Hirohito and Showa Japan written by Stephen Large and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emperor Hirohito reigned for more than sixty years, yet we know little about him or the part he really played in the turbulent history of Showa Japan. Stephen Large draws on a wide range of Japanese and Western sources in his study of Emperor Hirohito's political role in Showa Japan (1926-89). This analysis focuses on key events in his career such as the extent to which he bore responsibility for Japanese aggression in the Pacific in 1941, and explains why Hirohito remains such a contested symbol in Japanese post war politics.
Download or read book Showa written by Carol Gluck and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The death of Emperor Hirohito marked the end of Japan's Showa era. This collection of original essays on Japan's history and culture in the 20th century provides a mix of American and Japanese perspectives on Showa. It explores the strengths of the Japanese economy, the issue of democracy and Japan's political culture, Japan's achievements in technology and the arts and its relationship with other nations and the United States.
Download or read book Showa 1944-1953 written by Shigeru Mizuki and published by Drawn and Quarterly. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping yet intimate portrait of the legacy of World War II in Japan Showa 1944-1953: A History of Japan continues the award-winning author Shigeru Mizuki's autobiographical and historical account of the Showa period in Japan. This volume recounts the events of the final years of the Pacific War, and the consequences of the war's devastation for Mizuki and the Japanese populace at large. After the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor, Japan and the United States are officially at war. The two rival navies engage in a deadly game of feint and thrust, waging a series of microwars across the tiny Pacific islands. From Guadalcanal to Okinawa, Japan slowly loses ground. Finally, the United States unleashes the deathblow with a new and terrible weapon--the atomic bomb. The fallout from the bombs is beyond imagining. On another front, Showa 1944-1953 traces Mizuki's own life story across history's sweeping changes during this period, charting the impact of the war's end on his life choices. After losing his arm during the brutal fighting, Mizuki struggles to decide where to go: whether to remain on the island as an honored friend of the local Tolai people or return to the rubble of Japan and take up his dream of becoming a cartoonist. Showa 1944-1953 is a searing condemnation of the personal toll of war from one of Japan's most famous cartoonists.
Download or read book Showa Japan written by Hans Brinckmann and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan's momentous Showa era began in 1926, when Emperor Hirohito ascended the throne, and ended with his death in 1989. This was a tumultuous period in modern Japanese history—a time of great disaster and tremendous triumph for Japan. This book focuses on the post-war period in Japan when the nation stood at the zenith of her economic power. Today, the term Showa is shorthand for a glamorous period in which, all too briefly, Japan was the richest nation on earth and the envy of the developed world. A growing nostalgia for this period is now memorialized in Japan in a national holiday. It was an era of stratospheric growth which saw Japan's transition from an isolated, impoverished nation to a peaceful one holding an exalted position as the world's second largest economy. But what is the true meaning of the Showa era, and what is its legacy for the Japanese today? In Showa Japan, Hans Brinckmann provides a clear-eyed exploration of the Showa period as it really was—not just a time of wondrous change but of wild excesses that would eventually come crashing down with the bursting of Japan's economic bubble—exactly as occurred in the rest of the world, but almost 20 years earlier! From the heights of extravagance to the lean years that followed, Brinkmann, a long-time resident of Japan, examines the impact of the Showa era and its aftermath on every aspect of Japanese society. Featuring dozens of period photographs, interviews, and a wealth of factual information and personal reflections, this book provides an in-depth portrait of a Japan that once was—as well as a blueprint for one that might still be, if only the lessons of the past could be learned.
Book Synopsis Showa 1939-1944: by : Shigeru Mizuki
Download or read book Showa 1939-1944: written by Shigeru Mizuki and published by Drawn & Quarterly. This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A master cartoonist and war vet details Japan's involvement in World War II Showa 1939-1944: A History of Japan continues award-winning author Shigeru Mizuki’s autobiographical and historical account of Showa era Japan. This volume covers the final moments of the lead-up to World War Two and the first few years of the Pacific War; it is a chilling reminder of the harshness of life in Japan during this highly militarized epoch. In Showa 1939-1944, Mizuki writes affectingly about the impact on the Japanese populace of world-changing moments including the devastating Second Sino-Japanese War, the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the first half of the Pacific War. On a personal level, these years mark a dramatic transformation in Mizuki’s life, too – his idyllic childhood in the countryside comes to a definitive end when he’s drafted into the army and shipped off to the tiny island of Rabaul in Papua New Guinea. His life becomes a constant struggle for survival, not only against the constant Allied attacks but because he must face the harsh discipline of the Japanese army officers. During his time in Rabaul, Mizuki comes to understand the misery and beauty of the island itself—a place that will permanently mark him and haunt him for the rest of his life. Translated from the Japanese by Zack Davisson.
Book Synopsis Showa 1953-1989: by : Shigeru Mizuki
Download or read book Showa 1953-1989: written by Shigeru Mizuki and published by Drawn & Quarterly. This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final volume in the Eisner-Nominated history of Japan Showa 1953–1989: A History of Japan concludes Shigeru Mizuki’s dazzling autobiographical and historical account of Showa period Japan, a portrait both intimate and ranging of a defining epoch. The final volume picks up in the wake of Japan’s utter defeat in World War II, as a country reduced to rubble struggles to rise again. The Korean War brings new opportunities to the nation searching for an identity. A former enemy becomes Japan’s greatest ally as the US funnels money, jobs, and opportunity into the country, hoping to establish it as a bulwark against Soviet communist expansion. Japan reinvents itself, emerging as an economic powerhouse. Events like the Tokyo Olympiad and the World’s Fair introduce a new, friendly Japan to the world, but this period of peace and plenty conceals a populace still struggling to come to terms with the devastation of World War II. The original Japanese edition of the series Showa: A History of Japan won Mizuki the prestigious Kodansha Manga Award; the English translation has been nominated for an Eisner Award. Translated from the Japanese by Zack Davisson.
Book Synopsis Popular Hits of the Showa Era: A Novel by : Ryu Murakami
Download or read book Popular Hits of the Showa Era: A Novel written by Ryu Murakami and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Audition, a wickedly satirical and wildly funny tale of an intergenerational battle of the sexes. In his most irreverent novel yet, Ryu Murakami creates a rivalry of epic proportions between six aimless youths and six tough-as-nails women who battle for control of a Tokyo neighborhood. At the outset, the young men seem louche but harmless, their activities limited to drinking, snacking, peering at a naked neighbor through a window, and performing karaoke. The six "aunties" are fiercely independent career women. When one of the boys executes a lethal ambush of one of the women, chaos ensues. The women band together to find the killer and exact revenge. In turn, the boys buckle down, study physics, and plot to take out their nemeses in a single blast. Who knew that a deadly "gang war" could be such fun? Murakami builds the conflict into a hilarious, spot-on satire of modern culture and the tensions between the sexes and generations.
Book Synopsis Corporation Report: Showa Airplane Company. Airframes by : United States Strategic Bombing Survey
Download or read book Corporation Report: Showa Airplane Company. Airframes written by United States Strategic Bombing Survey and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey: Showa Airplane Company (Showa Hikoki Kogyo KK). by : United States. War Department
Download or read book U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey: Showa Airplane Company (Showa Hikoki Kogyo KK). written by United States. War Department and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Showa 1944-1953: by : Shigeru Mizuki
Download or read book Showa 1944-1953: written by Shigeru Mizuki and published by Drawn & Quarterly. This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping yet intimate portrait of the legacy of World War II in Japan Showa 1944–1953: A History of Japan continues award-winning author Shigeru Mizuki’s autobiographical and historical account of the Showa period in Japan. This volume recounts the events of the final years of the Pacific War, and the consequences of the war's devastation for Mizuki and the Japanese populace at large. After the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor, Japan and the United States are officially at war. The two rival navies engage in a deadly game of feint and thrust, waging a series of microwars across the tiny Pacific islands. From Guadalcanal to Okinawa, Japan slowly loses ground. Finally, the United States unleashes the deathblow with a new and terrible weapon—the atomic bomb. The fallout from the bombs is beyond imagining. On another front, Showa 1944–1953 traces Mizuki’s own life story across history’s sweeping changes during this period, charting the impact of the war’s end on his life choices. After losing his arm during the brutal fighting, Mizuki struggles to decide where to go: whether to remain on the island as an honored friend of the local Tolai people or return to the rubble of Japan and take up his dream of becoming a cartoonist. Showa 1944–1953 is a searing condemnation of the personal toll of war from one of Japan’s most famous cartoonists. Translated from the Japanese by Zack Davisson.
Book Synopsis Corporation Report ...: Showa Airplane Co. Airframes by : United States Strategic Bombing Survey
Download or read book Corporation Report ...: Showa Airplane Co. Airframes written by United States Strategic Bombing Survey and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Showa 1953-1989 written by Shigeru Mizuki and published by Drawn and Quarterly. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tegneserie - graphic novel. A autobiographical and historical account of Showa-era Japan
Book Synopsis Shōwa Japan: 1926-1941 by : Stephen S. Large
Download or read book Shōwa Japan: 1926-1941 written by Stephen S. Large and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1998 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hirohito: The Shōwa Emperor in War and Peace by : Ikuhiko Hata
Download or read book Hirohito: The Shōwa Emperor in War and Peace written by Ikuhiko Hata and published by Global Oriental. This book was released on 2007-07-12 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a most important new work of Japanese scholarship on Emperor Hirohito, the English edition having been long delayed following the untimely death of distinguished American historian Marius B. Jansen (Emeritus Professor, Princeton) in December 2000, who had been actively collaborating with David Noble in the translation of Hata Ikuhiko's original study in Japanese, first published in 1984.
Book Synopsis Agrarian Reform, Peasantry, and the State in the Showa Region of Ethiopia, 1975-1982 by : Solomon Gashaw
Download or read book Agrarian Reform, Peasantry, and the State in the Showa Region of Ethiopia, 1975-1982 written by Solomon Gashaw and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Daido Moriyama by : Takeshi Nakamoto
Download or read book Daido Moriyama written by Takeshi Nakamoto and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The first thing I always tell anyone who asks me for advice is: "Get outside".' – Daido Moriyama Take an inspiring walk with legendary Japanese street photographer Daido Moriyama as he explains his groundbreaking approach to street photography. For over half a century, Moriyama has provided a distinct vision of Japan and its people. In Daido Moriyama: How I Take Photographs, he offers a unique opportunity for fans to learn about his methods, the cameras he uses, and the journeys he takes with a camera.
