LEADER 02741nam 2200445 450 001 9910154723803321 005 20230421030724.0 010 $a0-8047-6535-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804765350 035 $a(CKB)3710000000971683 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5413891 035 $a(DE-B1597)564238 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804765350 035 $a(OCoLC)1198932146 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000971683 100 $a20180627d1995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe way of the heavenly sword $ethe Japanese Army in the 1920's /$fLeonard A. Humphreys 210 1$aStanford, California :$cStanford University Press, 1995,$d1995. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 252 pages) 311 $a0-8047-2375-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [229]-243) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tPreface -- $tContents -- $t1. The Background to Army Politics -- $t2. The Army Faces Change -- $t3. The Changing of the Guard: Ugaki Comes to Power -- $t4. Reduction and Modernization: The Ugaki Era -- $t5. The Growth of Dissidence -- $t6. The Manmo Problem and Tanaka's Positive Solution -- $t7. Jinan and Mukden: The Army Sets Its Course in China -- $t8. Conclusion -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aThis text examines the history of the Japanese army in the 1920s. In this decade, the 'Meija military system' disintegrated and was replaced by a new 'Imperial Army System'. The Japanese victory over Russia in 1905 had changed the direction of Japanese military thought from almost total dependence on western rational military thinking to a more traditional reliance on morale as the preponderant factor for victory in combat. The author focuses on the intense and complex struggle which took place over leadership of the Army, the application of the principle of the primacy of morale, and the quite contradictory but obvious necessity for the army to modernize. This internal turmoil was intensified by a background of increasingly difficult economic circumstances, and the terrible effects of the great earthquake and fire of 1923. This crucial decade of Japanese history set the stage for the shattering events of the 1930s and 1940s. 606 $aHISTORY / Military / General$2bisacsh 607 $aJapan$xHistory$y20th century 615 7$aHISTORY / Military / General. 676 $a355.0095209042 700 $aHumphreys$b Leonard A.$f1924-$01234216 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154723803321 996 $aThe way of the heavenly sword$92866865 997 $aUNINA