Japan at War
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Japan at War

An Encyclopedia

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Japan at War

An Encyclopedia

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This compelling reference focuses on the events, individuals, organizations, and ideas that shaped Japanese warfare from early times to the present day.

Japan's military prowess is legendary. From the early samurai code of morals to the 20th-century battles in the Pacific theater, this island nation has a long history of duty, honor, and valor in warfare. This fascinating reference explores the relationship between military values and Japanese society, and traces the evolution of war in this country from 700 CE to modern times.

In Japan at War: An Encyclopedia, author Louis G. Perez examines the people and ideas that led Japan into or out of war, analyzes the outcomes of battles, and presents theoretical alternatives to the strategic choices made during the conflicts. The book contains contributions from scholars in a wide range of disciplines, including history, political science, anthropology, sociology, language, literature, poetry, and psychology; and the content features internal rebellions and revolutions as well as wars with other countries and kingdoms. Entries are listed alphabetically and extensively cross-referenced to help readers quickly locate topics of interest.

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Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781598847413
eBook ISBN
9781598847420
Edition
1
Topic
Historia
Subtopic
Referencia histórica

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Guide to Related Topics by Era
  7. Guide to Related Topics by Subject
  8. Preface
  9. Introduction
  10. Ainu, Military Resistance to
  11. Aizawa Seishisai (1782–1863)
  12. Aizu Samurai Spirit
  13. Akihito (Heisei), Emperor (b. 1933)
  14. Amau Doctrine
  15. American Anti-alien Movement
  16. AMPO: United States–Japan Security Treaty (1951)
  17. Anglo-Japanese Alliances (1902–1921)
  18. Anti-Comintern Pact (1936)
  19. Anti-Japanism in China
  20. Anti-Narita Airport Movement
  21. Araki Sadao (1877–1966)
  22. Ashikaga Takauji (1305–1358)
  23. Atomic Bombs: Surrender of Japan August 15, 1945)
  24. Azuma kagami
  25. Bakumatsu Fencing Schools and Nationalism
  26. Bataan, Battle of (1941–1942)
  27. Bataan Death March (April 1942)
  28. Beheiren: Anti-Vietnam War Movement
  29. Bikini Island Atomic Tests (1946–1958)
  30. Boissonade de Fontarabie, Gustave E ´ mile (1825–1910)
  31. Boshin Civil War (1867–1868)
  32. Boshin Civil War, Causes
  33. Boshin Civil War, Consequences
  34. Boxer Rebellion (1898–1900)
  35. Buddhism Copes with Imperialism (1900–1945)
  36. Buke Shohatto
  37. Bunmei kaika
  38. Burma Air Campaign (1941–1942)
  39. Bushidō
  40. Bushidō in Japanese Sports
  41. Christian Era, Suppression (Fumi-e)
  42. Civil Wars (1467–1570), Causes
  43. Civil Wars (1467–1570), Consequences
  44. Civil Wars, Sengoku Era (1467–1570)
  45. Cloister Government (Insei)
  46. Colonization of Hokkaidō
  47. Colonization of Taiwan (1895–1945)
  48. Comfort Women
  49. Continental Adventurers (Tairiku Rōnin)
  50. Coral Sea, Battle of (May 7–8, 1942)
  51. Corregidor, Battle of (April–May 1942)
  52. Dōmei News Agency (Dōmei Tsūshinsha)
  53. Doolittle Raid (April 18, 1942)
  54. Dutch on Deshima (1641–1859)
  55. Early Meiji (1868–1890) Political Reforms
  56. Early Mytho-histories: Kojiki and Nihon Shōki
  57. Emigrants from Japan
  58. Enomoto Takeaki (1836–1908)
  59. February 26 Incident (1936)
  60. Firearms in Premodern Japan
  61. Fujiwara Family
  62. Fukuzawa Yukichi
  63. Gen’yōsha Nationalism
  64. Gilbert Islands Campaign (November 1943)
  65. Go-Daigo
  66. Golovnin Affair (1811–1813)
  67. Gordon, Beate Sirota (b. 1923)
  68. Gōtō Shinpei
  69. Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere
  70. Great Kanto Earthquake (1923)
  71. Guadalcanal, Land Battle for (August 1942–February 1943)
  72. Guam, Battle for (July 21–August 10,1944)
  73. Hakkō Ichiu
  74. Hansan, Battle of (1592)
  75. Hara-kiri (Seppuku)
  76. Hara Takashi (1856–1921)
  77. Harris, Townsend (1804–1878)
  78. Hashimoto Kingoro (1890–1957)
  79. Heike monogatari
  80. Heusken, Henry (1832–1861)
  81. High Treason Incident (1910–1911)
  82. Himiko-Iyo Succession Crisis (Third Century C.E.)
  83. Hiratsuka Raichō
  84. History Textbooks Controversy
  85. Hitotsubasi Keiki (Tokugawa Yoshinobu) (1827–1913)
  86. Hogen-Heiji-Gempei Wars (12th Century)
  87. Hôjô Masako (1157–1225)
  88. Hôjô Tokimune (1251–1284)
  89. Hong Kong, Battle of (December 8–25,1941)
  90. Ichi-gō Campaign (April–December 1944)
  91. Ichikawa Fusae (1893–1981)
  92. Ienaga Saburō (1913–2002)
  93. Ii Naosuke (1815–1860)
  94. Ikeda Hayato (1899–1965)
  95. Ikkō Ikki
  96. Imjin War
  97. Inoue Kaoru (1836–1915)
  98. International Military Tribunal for the Far East (1946–1949)
  99. Ishiwara Kanji (1889–1949)
  100. Isshi Incident
  101. Itagaki Taisuke (1837–1919)
  102. Itō Hirobumi
  103. Itō Noe (1895–1923)
  104. Itō Yū ko (1843–1913)
  105. Iwakura Mission (1871–1873)
  106. Iwakura Tomomi (1825–1883)
  107. Iwo Jima, Battle for (February 19–March 26, 1945)
  108. Jiang Jieshi (Ch’iang K’ai-shek) (1887–1975)
  109. Jimmu Tennō (711 B.C.E.?–585B.C.E.?)
  110. Jingū Kōgō
  111. Jiyu Minken Undo
  112. Jôkyû War of 1221
  113. Kagoshima, Bombardment of
  114. Kakitsu Disturbance
  115. Kakure Kirishitan (750)
  116. Kamakura Bakufu (1185–1333)
  117. Kamikaze (Tokkōtai)
  118. Katsu Kaishū (1823–1899)
  119. Kawakami Soroku (1848–1899)
  120. Kimigayo (National Anthem)
  121. Kim Ok-kyun (1851–1894)
  122. Kita Ikki (1883–1937)
  123. Kitabatake Chikafusa (1293–1354)
  124. Kokutai and Ultra-nationalism
  125. Komura Jutarō (1855–1911)
  126. Konoe Fumimaro (1891–1946)
  127. Korea Added to the Empire(1905–1910)
  128. Korean War (1950–1952)
  129. Kōtoku Shūsui (1871–1911)
  130. Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi
  131. Kwantung Army Adventurism(1926–1936)
  132. Language: Change in the Sixth to EighthCenturies
  133. Language: Change in the 19th to 20th Centuries
  134. Law on Assembly and Political Association of 1890
  135. League of Nations, Mandates
  136. Leyte Gulf, Battle of (October 23–26,1944)
  137. London Naval Conference
  138. Loyalist Verse (Shishi-gin)
  139. MacArthur, Douglas (1880–1964)
  140. Malaya Campaign (1941–1942)
  141. Manchukuo
  142. Manila, Battle for (February 3–March 3,1945)
  143. Maria Luz Incident (1872)
  144. Maruyama Masao (1914–1996)
  145. Matsudaira Sadanobu
  146. Matsukata Masayoshi (1835–1924)
  147. Matsuoka Yōsuke (1880–1946)
  148. May Fourth Movement (1919)
  149. Meiji Constitution (1890)
  150. Meiji Economic Reforms (1870–1880s)
  151. Meiji Emperor (1852–1912)
  152. Meiji-Era Peasant Uprisings
  153. Meiji Ishin Shishi
  154. Meiji Land Tax (1873)
  155. Meiji Press Laws
  156. Midway, Battle of (June 3–6, 1942)
  157. Minamoto Yoritomo (1147–1199)
  158. Minamoto Yoshitsune (1159–1189)
  159. Minobe Tatsukichi (1873–1948)
  160. Mishima Yukio (1925–1970)
  161. Mito School
  162. Mongol Invasions of Japan (1274, 1281)
  163. Mukden Incident: Lytton Report
  164. Muromachi Bakufu (1338–1573)
  165. Musha-e (Warrior Prints)
  166. Mutsu Munemitsu (1844–1897)
  167. Namamugi Incident
  168. Nanjing Massacre
  169. Nara (Heijō-kyō ) to Heian-kyō
  170. Nativism, Rise of
  171. Navy, Modernized (1868–1894)
  172. New Guinea Campaign (March 8,1942–September 13, 1945)
  173. New Religions in Imperial and Postwar Japan
  174. Newsreels
  175. Nichiren (1222–1282)
  176. Ninja
  177. Nishi Amane (1829–1897)
  178. Nitobe Inazō (1862–1933)
  179. Nitta Yoshisada (1301–1338)
  180. Nogi Maresuke
  181. Nomonhan/Khalhin-Gol, Battle of (1939)
  182. Nozu Michitsura (1842–1907)
  183. Occupation of Japan
  184. Oda Nobunaga (1534–1582)
  185. Ōshio Yoshio (1659–1703) and the 47 Rōnin
  186. Okinawa, Invasion of (Operation Iceberg,March–June 1945)
  187. Oku Yasukata (1846–1930)
  188. Ōkubo Toshimichi
  189. Ōkuma Shigenobu (1838–1922)
  190. Ōnin War (1467–1477)
  191. Organ Theory of the State
  192. Orientalism
  193. Osaka Castle, Battle of (1614–1615)
  194. Ōshio Heihachirō (1793–1837)
  195. Ōtori Keisuke (1833–1911)
  196. Otsu Incident (1891)
  197. Ōyama Iwao (1842–1916)
  198. Oyatoi Gaikokujin
  199. Pacifism
  200. Pal, Radhabinod (1886–1967)
  201. Pan-Asianism
  202. Party Cabinets (1918–1933)
  203. Peace Preservation Law (1925)
  204. Pearl Harbor, Attack on (1941)
  205. Perry, Matthew (1794–1858)
  206. Philippine Sea, Battle of (June 19–21,1944)
  207. Port Arthur Siege (1904–1905)
  208. Portsmouth Treaty
  209. Postwar Politics
  210. Pu-yi (Henry) (1906–1967)
  211. Qingdao, Siege of (August 23–November 7,1914)
  212. Red Army (Sekigun)
  213. Rice Riots (1918)
  214. Right-Wing Politics in Japan (1945–Present)
  215. Rise of the Modern Army (1868–1894)
  216. Ritsu-ryō
  217. Russian Invasion of Manchuria (1945)
  218. Russian Neutrality Pact (1941)
  219. Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905)
  220. Russo-Japanese War, Causes
  221. Russo-Japanese War, Consequences
  222. Saga Rebellion (1874)
  223. Saigō Takamori (1827–1877)
  224. Saigō Tsugumichi (1843–1901)
  225. Saionji Kinmochi (1849–1940)
  226. Sakamoto Ryōma (1836–1867)
  227. Sakoku (1633–1854)
  228. Sakuradamon Incident (1860)
  229. San Francisco Peace Treaty (1951)
  230. Sankin kōtai (Alternate Attendance)
  231. Sasakawa Ryōichi (1899–1995)
  232. SatChō Oligarchy
  233. Satō Eisaku (1901–1975)
  234. Seikanron
  235. Seinan (Satsuma) Rebellion (1877)
  236. Seito (Bluestockings) (1911–1916)
  237. Sekigahara, Battle of (1600)
  238. Self-Defense Forces (Jieitai), from the Bomb to Iraq
  239. Senninbari and “Comfort Bags
  240. Sensō-e (War Prints)
  241. Shanghai, Battle of (August 13–November 9, 1937)
  242. Shiba Ryōtarō and Bushidō
  243. Shidehara Kijuro (1872–1951)
  244. Shimabara Rebellion (1637–1638)
  245. Shimoda Treaty (1858)
  246. Shimonoseki, Bombardment of (1863–1864)
  247. Shimonoseki, Treaty of
  248. Shōen and Rise of Bushi
  249. Shōtoku Taishi (573–621 C.E.)
  250. Shōwa Emperor (Hirohito) (1901–1989)
  251. Shōwa Restoration
  252. Siberian Intervention
  253. Siemens-Vickers Scandal (1914)
  254. Singapore, Battle for (February 8–15,1942)
  255. Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895)
  256. Sino-Japanese War, Causes
  257. Sino-Japanese War, Consequences
  258. Sōhei (“Monk Warriors”)
  259. Sonno-jōi
  260. South Manchurian Railway
  261. Southern Court (Yoshino)
  262. State Shintō
  263. State Shintō , Exporting to the Colonies,
  264. Sun Yat-sen (1866–1925) and the Japanese
  265. Taiheiki
  266. Taika Reforms
  267. Taira-no-Masakado (died 940)
  268. Taishō Emperor (1879–1926)
  269. Taiwan Expedition (1874)
  270. Takahashi Korekiyo (1854–1936)
  271. Takeda Shingen (1521–1573)
  272. Tanaka Chigaku (1861–1939)
  273. Tanaka Giichi (1864–1929)
  274. Tanaka Memorial
  275. Tanuma Okitsugu (1719–1788)
  276. Tarawa, Battle of (November 20–24,1943)
  277. Tenko (Political Conversion)
  278. Tōgō Heihachirō (1848–1934)
  279. Tōjō Hideki (1884–1948)
  280. Tokugawa Bakufu Political System
  281. Tokugawa Bakumatsu Military Reforms
  282. Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543–1616)
  283. Tokugawa Loyalism: Boshin War
  284. Tokugawa Nariaki (1800–1860)
  285. Tokyo, Bombing of (March 9–10,1945)
  286. Tokyo Rose (1916–2006)
  287. Tôyama Mitsuru (1855–1944)
  288. Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536–1598)
  289. Tripartite Pact
  290. Triple Intervention
  291. Tsushima, Battle of (1905)
  292. Twenty-One Demands (1915)
  293. Uchida Yasuya (Kōsai) (1865–1936)
  294. Uchimura Kanzo (1861–1930)
  295. Unequal Treaties
  296. Unit 731
  297. Versailles Treaty (1919)
  298. Violence in Wartime Cinema
  299. Warrior Tales
  300. Washington Naval Conference (1921–1922)
  301. Western Medicine in Imperial Japan
  302. Women during World War II: Kokubo Fujinkai and Aikoku Fujinkai
  303. World War I
  304. World War I, Causes
  305. World War I, Consequences
  306. World War II
  307. World War II, Consequences
  308. World War II, Continental Theater
  309. World War II, Japanese Atrocities
  310. World War II, Pacific Theater
  311. World War II, Southwest Pacific Theater
  312. Xi’an Incident (1936)
  313. Yalu River, Battle of (1894)
  314. Yalu River, Battle of (1904)
  315. Yamagata Aritomo (1838–1922)
  316. Yamamoto Gonnohyōe (1852–1933)
  317. Yamamoto Isoroku (1884–1943)
  318. Yamashita Tomoyuki (1885–1946)
  319. Yasukuni Shrine Controversy
  320. Yosano Akiko (1878–1942)
  321. Yoshida Shigeru (1878–1967)
  322. Yoshida Shōin (1831–1859)
  323. Young Officer Movement
  324. Zaibatsu
  325. Zen Buddhism and Militarism
  326. Zen Buddhism in Japanese Sports
  327. Zengakuren
  328. Zhang Zuolin (1873–1928)
  329. Primary Documents
  330. Chronology
  331. Glossary
  332. Bibliography
  333. Editor and Contributors
  334. Index