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OverviewThe Historical Dictionary of Japanese Foreign Policy includes a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Japanese Foreign Policy. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mayako Shimamoto , Koji Ito , Yoneyuki SugitaPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Dimensions: Width: 16.20cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.735kg ISBN: 9781442250680ISBN 10: 1442250682 Pages: 412 Publication Date: 01 July 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsEditor’s Foreword Jon Woronoff Preface Acronyms and Abbreviations Chronology Map Photos Introduction THE DICTIONARY Appendix A Japanese Prime Ministers Appendix B Japanese Foreign Ministers Appendix C Japanese Vice Foreign Ministers Bibliography About the AuthorsReviewsThis reference book written by three scholars affiliated with Osaka University in Japan is intended for general audiences. Entries are relatively short, with cross-references bolded in the text or placed at the end...The introduction provides a decent overview of foreign relations starting in 1543, although the book's focus is the late Tokugawa period from the mid-19th century through the 20th century...[T]here is a general chronology and a listing of prime ministers, foreign ministers, and even vice foreign ministers...For libraries collecting comprehensively. CHOICE Author Information"Mayako Shimamoto is currently an independent scholar. Her current interests cover US atomic diplomacy in the early Cold War, postwar nuclear energy issues in US-Japan relations, and Japan’s present-day nuclear policy. She continues to do research on these subjects, while giving talks at universities either in Japan or abroad. Koji Ito is a PhD student of American history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His major works include “The Price of National Prestige: An Interpretation of the Japan-US Confrontation over Hawaii at the Turn of the Century,” American Review, Vol. 46 (March, 2012), 33-50, and “Politics in the Dark: An Interpretation of the Japan-US War Crisis over Hawaii in 1897,” Doshisha American Studies Supplement, Vol. 20 (April 2013), 53-72. Yoneyuki Sugita is professor of American history at Osaka University. His major works include ""US Strategic Preference for Securing Military Bases and Impact of Japanese Financial Community on Constrained Rearmament in Japan, 1945-1954,"" in Peter N. Stearns ed., Demilitarization in the Contemporary World (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2013); Pitfall or Panacea: The Irony of US Power in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952 (New York: Routledge, 2003)." Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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