Five Gentlemen of Japan Five Gentlemen of Japan

Five Gentlemen of Japan

The Portrait of a Nation's Character

    • $5.99
    • $5.99

Descripción editorial

A newspaperman, an ex-Navy vice-admiral, a steel worker, a farmer, and the 124th Emperor of Japan himself--these are the fascinating heroes of Gibney's brilliant book about modern Japan. Strongly individual, every one of them, the five yet share the common inheritance of Japan's precocious but unstable past.

Through their lives and attitudes, Gibney gives us an invaluable analysis of this new sovereign nation so suddenly thrown into the world's power conflicts. He helps us understand the historical and social forces which make Japan what she is today--the old contracts and loyalties from which each of the Five Gentlemen is struggling to break away from his country. Their courageous efforts to weld a new Japan from the remains of the old society, and to come to terms with the present, are as exciting as it is important.

GÉNERO
Fiction & Literature
PUBLICADO
1997
15 de mayo
IDIOMA
EN
Inglés
EXTENSIÓN
398
Páginas
EDITORIAL
Tuttle Publishing
VENDEDOR
Perseus Books, LLC
TAMAÑO
8,1
MB

Más libros como este

Inventing Japan Inventing Japan
2003
Japan Japan
2004
Mutsu Munemitsu and His Time Mutsu Munemitsu and His Time
2018
An Intellectual History of Wartime Japan An Intellectual History of Wartime Japan
2010
History of Modern Japan History of Modern Japan
2020
Intell Hist Of Wartime Japn 1931 Intell Hist Of Wartime Japn 1931
2013

Más libros de Frank Gibney

Silk and Insight (Kinu to Meisatsu) Silk and Insight (Kinu to Meisatsu)
1998
The Nanjing Massacre: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan's National Shame The Nanjing Massacre: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan's National Shame
2015
Silk and Insight (Kinu to Meisatsu) Silk and Insight (Kinu to Meisatsu)
1998
Senso: The Japanese Remember the Pacific War Senso: The Japanese Remember the Pacific War
2015
Silk and Insight Silk and Insight
2015