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(*)(Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture) (★)(After the Pacific War, bitter enemies Japan and the United States became fast friends and allies. Most observers in the West Believe Japan´s attack on Pearl Harbor was unprovoked, but what had led Japan to take such action? The arrival of American ´black ships´ in Japan in 1853 was one cause of the fall of the Shogunate and the restoration of imperial power little more than a decade later. That set Japan on the road to international expansion in imitation of Western imperial powers. This volume recounts this saga from a pragmatic perspective, through the Russo-Japanese War and Japanese expansion in Manchuria, to the brink of war with the United States. ◆Kosaka Masataka (1934-1996) was a professor of international politics at Kyoto University from 1971-96. He graduated from Kyoto University Law School and studied at Harvard University from 1960-62. His 1962 article,´Genjitsu shugisha no heiwaron [A Realist´s View of Peace]´, had a major impact on the discussion of diplomacy in postwar Japan.) |
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