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Warriors of the Rising Sun - A History of the Japanese Military

By: W.W. Norton & Company

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Historical Books (W.W. Norton & Company)

Last Stocked on 9/17/2023

Product Info

Title
Warriors of the Rising Sun - A History of the Japanese Military
Category
Author
Robert B. Edgerton
Publish Year
1997
Pages
384
Dimensions
6.5x9.5x1.25"
NKG Part #
2147890458
Type
Hardcover

Description

During World War II, many of Japan's soldiers committed such crimes against humanity that the world recoiled in horror. During the notorious six-week long "rape of Nanking" in 1937, Japanese forces murdered at least 200,000 men, women, and children. Throughout the Pacific War, Allied prisoners were often starved, tortured, beheaded, even cannibalized. Although Japan's military men fought bravely against outnumbering forces again and again, their astonishing brutality made them a loathsome, unforgivable enemy.

Warriors of the Rising Sun chronicles the Japanese military's transformation from honorable "knights of bushido" into men who massacred thousands during the Pacific War. Crucial in bringing about this change was Western rejection of Japan as an aspiring colonial power, as well as the West's racist, anti-Japanese immigration policies.

Today, Japan has the second largest military budget in the world - what lessons have her leaders learned from past wars?