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This acclaimed work is an extraordinary collection of letters
written by a wide cross-section of Japanese citizens to one of
Japan's leading newspapers, expressing their personal reminiscences
and opinions of the Pacific war. Senso provides the general reader
and the specialist with moving, disturbing, startling insights on a
subject deliberately swept under the rug, both by Japan's citizenry
and its government. It is an invaluable index of Japanese public
opinion about the war. For this new and expanded edition, the
editor and translator have gone back to the original letters and
incorporated new material on reassessing the war. All the letters
from the previous edition are included, along with additional
letters that provide expanded representation of the original
collection and new insights on rethinking the war experience.
This acclaimed work is an extraordinary collection of letters
written by a wide cross-section of Japanese citizens to one of
Japan's leading newspapers, expressing their personal reminiscences
and opinions of the Pacific war. "SENSO" provides the general
reader and the specialist with moving, disturbing, startling
insights on a subject deliberately swept under the rug, both by
Japan's citizenry and its government. It is an invaluable index of
Japanese public opinion about the war.
The central part of this book is an English version of the memoir
of Masahiko Aoki that was published in Japanese in 2008 ( ). In
this memoir, Aoki goes over his life as a young boy immediately
after World War II, as an activist who opposed the rearmament of
Japan under the US-Japan Security Alliance, as a student of Marxist
economics first and then modern mathematical economics, as a
graduate student at Minnesota, as a young economist at Stanford,
Harvard, and then Kyoto, as a central faculty member to develop
comparative institutional analysis at Stanford, and as an
institutional builder who established the Stanford Kyoto Center,
the Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry, the Virtual
Center for Advanced Studies Institution in Tokyo, and the Center
for Industrial Development and Environmental Governance in Beijing.
Until now the memoir has been available only in Japanese and in
Chinese. The English edition will allow more young social
scientists to touch the life and the work of Masahiko Aoki and be
inspired to make their own versions of the "transboundary game of
life."
This is the first English version of Tadao Umesao's classic,
published first in Japanese in 1957, with a full description of his
"ecological theory" of civilizations of Eurasia. Dividing the
Eurasian continent into three major ecological zones consisting of
Western Europe, Japan, and the region between them, he shows how
the first two are basically similar and demonstrates fundamental
differences between Japan and China. In 1964 a jury of ten
intellectuals chose this treatise as one of the 18 most influential
treatises since 1945 from among more than a hundred which were
considered. In 1998, when an influential monthly, Bungei Shunju,
solicited "the ten most impactful books" in the twentieth century
from more than 170 intellectuals in Japan, this book won the third
highest vote among 67 books that were nominated.
In early 1920 in Hawaii, Japanese sugar cane workers, faced with
spiraling living expenses, defiantly struck for a wage increase to
$1.25 per day. The event shook the traditional power structure in
Hawaii and, as Masayo Duus demonstrates in this book, had
consequences reaching all the way up to the eve of World War II.
By the end of World War I, the Hawaiian Islands had become what a
Japanese guidebook called a "Japanese village in the Pacific," with
Japanese immigrant workers making up nearly half the work force on
the Hawaiian sugar plantations. Although the strikers eventually
capitulated, the Hawaiian territorial government, working closely
with the planters, cracked down on the strike leaders, bringing
them to trial for an alleged conspiracy to dynamite the house of a
plantation official. And to end dependence on Japanese immigrant
labor, the planters lobbied hard in Washington to lift restrictions
on the immigration of Chinese workers. Placing the event in the
context of immigration history as well as diplomatic history, Duus
argues that the clash between the immigrant Japanese workers and
the Hawaiian oligarchs deepened the mutual suspicion between the
Japanese and United States governments. Eventually, she
demonstrates, this suspicion led to the passage of the so-called
Japanese Exclusion Act of 1924, an event that cast a long shadow
into the future.
Drawing on both Japanese- and English-language materials, including
important unpublished trial documents, this richly detailed
narrative focuses on the key actors in the strike. Its dramatic
conclusions will have broad implications for further research in
Asian American studies, labor history, and immigration history.
"Senso comes as close to anything I have seen to solving the
mystery of obsessive Japanese reticence, even among themselves,
about their war experience. ... Reading Gibney's English-language
version of Senso convinces me of what I have long suspected: that
the Japanese buried memories of the war not so they could live with
outsiders but so they could live with one another". -- The
Australian
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