San Antonio College Library

"Japan's Postwar History is the only book that provides an integrated analysis of Japan's social, political, and economic history from 1932 until the present day. Gary D. Allinson has substantially updated his work for a second edition that takes Japan from the bursting of the economic bubble through the long recession of the 1990s and up to 2003"--Jacket.

Only fifty years after WWII, Japan is an influential world power and a dominant player in Asia. How did Japan rise from the ashes to become one of the world s most important powers in the international economy and what effect did it have on its people? This book covers the emergence of the "new" Japan, following the the changes made by the Occupation (1945-52), and the enormous social and cultural consequences of this dramatic transformation. Themes...

This is the story of the period from the end of World War II in 1945 to the signing of the Dulles Treaty in 1952, when four million Americans took part in the occupation of Japan. This is the human story behind the military history, where individuals become attracted to their former enemy, sometimes marrying them, and bringing two cultures together in a new way with a health dose of culture shock. The author follows Emperor Hirohito, Premier Tojo,...

Contains five topical essays that the examine the reasons why Japan has emerged as a global power in the years since World War II, and includes a chronology of events, biographies of significant individuals behind Japan's economic success, and a selection of primary documents.

The story of Takashi Nagai, M.D., professor of radiology at the University of Nagasaki, and of his spiritual pilgrimage from his native Shintoism to atheistic rationalism, and finally to a Christian faith.

Includes material on Konrad Adenauer, Douglas MacArthur in Japan, Dean Acheson, Jean Monnet, Marshall Plan, John Foster Dulles, John F. Kennedy, Charles de Gaulle, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Willy Brandt, detente, Henry Kissinger, trilateralism, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan.

On December 26, 1898, Marie Curie announced the discovery of radium and observed that "radioactivity seems to be an atomic property." A mere 47 years later, "Little Boy" exploded over Hiroshima. Before the Fallout is the epic story of the intervening half century, during which an exhilarating quest to unravel the secrets of the material world revealed how to destroy it, and an open, international, scientific adventure transmuted overnight into a wartime...