Summary Japan’s Contested War Memories is an important and significant book that explores the struggles within contemporary Japanese society to come to terms with Second World War…
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Summary A series of closely interrelated essays on game theory, this book deals with an area in which progress has been least satisfactory—the situations where…
Summary The Seven Military Classics is one of the most profound studies of warfare ever written. It presents us with an Eastern tradition of strategic…
Summary Westerners have long fetishized the idea of “Oriental” warfare, hoping to either emulate the strategies of foreign armies or assimilate members of Eastern and…
Summary In the early 1960s, fewer than five percent of Japanese owned automobiles, China’s per capita income was among the lowest in Asia, and living…
Summary The essays in this volume analyze war, its strategic characterisitics and its political and social functions, over the past five centuries. The diversity of…
Summary Since World War II “victim consciousness” (higaisha ishiki) has been an essential component of Japanese pacifist national identity. In his meticulously crafted narrative and…
Summary As the U.S. military presence in the Middle East winds down, Asia and the Pacific are receiving increased attention from the American national security…
Summary In the late 1980s, Japan’s strong economic performance put it on a the verge of becoming a major player in regional and global affairs.…
Summary In this book Professor Kissinger examines the framework of our foreign policy, the stresses to which that framework is being subjected, and the prospects…
Summary Japan will recover. When its economic achievements once again earn the world’s admiration, its per capita GDP will grow faster, and its Information Technology…
Summary In Finding the Target, Frederick Kagan describes the three basic transformations within the U.S. military since Vietnam. First was the move to an all-volunteer…
Summary Japan, the world’s second largest economy, has suffered from a prolonged period of stagnation and malaise since 1991. Subpar growth, failing banks, plummeting real…
Summary With startling revelations, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa rewrites the standard history of the end of World War II in the Pacific. By fully integrating the three…
Summary Despite recent upheavals, Japan remains one of the dominant economic powers at the end of the twentieth century. Yet the Japanese economy is one…
