Author: HARVEY, ROBERT
Title: American shogun : General MacArthur, Emperor Hirohito and the drama of modern Japan
Description: Woodstock. NY : Overlook Press 2006. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. Physical description; 480 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Summary; 'In the years and months leading up to Pearl Harbor. Japan was becoming the most industrialized state in Asia. as well as the repository of a martial heritage that fueled imperial ambitions of conquest and hegemony. Across the Pacific. the United States was emerging from the depression and again growing into its role as a global power. Today's partnership between modern Japan - now Asia's most well-developed. Subjects; MacArthur. Douglas. -- 1880-1964. Hirohito. -- Emperor of Japan. -- 1901-1989. United States. -- Army -- Biography. Weight in Kg appr.:

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