LEADER 04075nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910792022203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-6774-8 010 $a0-8014-6775-6 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801467752 035 $a(CKB)2560000000101755 035 $a(OCoLC)844164753 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10700266 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000873034 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12380475 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000873034 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10865330 035 $a(PQKB)10543376 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001504881 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138478 035 $a(OCoLC)966875534 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse51871 035 $a(DE-B1597)478496 035 $a(OCoLC)979576433 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801467752 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138478 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10700266 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681714 035 $a(OCoLC)922998401 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000101755 100 $a20120928d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aImperial eclipse$b[electronic resource] $eJapan's strategic thinking about continental Asia before August 1945 /$fYukiko Koshiro 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (329 p.) 225 1 $aStudies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-50432-6 311 $a0-8014-5180-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apt. 1. The place of Russia in prewar Japan -- pt. 2. The future of East Asia after the Japanese empire -- pt. 3. Ending the war and beyond -- pt. 4. Inventing Japan's war : Eurasian eclipse. 330 $aThe "Pacific War" narrative of Japan's defeat that was established after 1945 started with the attack on Pearl Harbor, detailed the U.S. island-hopping campaigns across the Western Pacific, and culminated in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan's capitulation, and its recasting as the western shore of an American ocean. But in the decades leading up to World War II and over the course of the conflict, Japan's leaders and citizens were as deeply concerned about continental Asia-and the Soviet Union, in particular-as they were about the Pacific theater and the United States. In Imperial Eclipse, Yukiko Koshiro reassesses the role that Eurasia played in Japan's diplomatic and military thinking from the turn of the twentieth century to the end of the war.Through unprecedented archival research, Koshiro has located documents and reports expunged from the files of the Japanese Cabinet, ministries of Foreign Affairs and War, and Imperial Headquarters, allowing her to reconstruct Japan's official thinking about its plans for continental Asia. She brings to light new information on the assumptions and resulting plans that Japan's leaders made as military defeat became increasingly certain and the Soviet Union slowly moved to declare war on Japan (which it finally did on August 8, two days after Hiroshima). She also describes Japanese attitudes toward Russia in the prewar years, highlighting the attractions of communism and the treatment of Russians in the Japanese empire; and she traces imperial attitudes toward Korea and China throughout this period. Koshiro's book offers a balanced and comprehensive account of imperial Japan's global ambitions. 410 0$aStudies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zJapan 607 $aJapan$xForeign relations$zAsia 607 $aAsia$xForeign relations$zJapan 607 $aJapan$xForeign relations$y1912-1945 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945 676 $a327.520509/041 700 $aKoshiro$b Yukiko$01533813 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792022203321 996 $aImperial eclipse$93780943 997 $aUNINA