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The Rise and Fall of Imperial Japan (Hardcover)
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The Rise and Fall of Imperial Japan (Hardcover)
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List price R574
Loot Price R515
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The question is, how did a once great nation that built an empire
lose it all? From the Meiji Restoration in 1868, restoring Imperial
rule under Emperor Meiji, until Japan's surrender at the end of the
Second World War in 1945, the dream lasted a comparatively short
period of time: seventy-seven years from beginning to end. Under
Emperor Meiji's rule, Imperial Japan began a period of rapid
industrialisation and militarisation, leading to its emergence as a
world power and the establishment of a colonial empire. Economic
and political turmoil in the early 1920s led Japan down the path of
militarism, culminating in her conquest of large parts of the Asian
and Pacific region. The beginning of this path can be traced back
to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, when Japan's proposal for
racial equality was supported and approved by the other members,
but overruled by the American President, Woodrow Wilson. Was this
rebuttal by the West, and in particular the United States, the
moment that changed the course of history? During the empire's
existence, Japan was involved in some sixteen conflicts, resulting
in the occupation of numerous countries and islands throughout Asia
and the Pacific regions. Thousands were under the emperor's
control, not all of whom were treated as they should have been. The
book culminates with the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, which finally brought about Japan's surrender and the end
of the war in Asia and the Pacific.
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