Showa: The Japan of Hirohito

This "stimulating and comprehensive" (<em>Kirkus Reviews</em>) collection of original essays on twentieth-century Japans history and culture provides a unique mix of American and Japanese perspectives on Showa. With an important, substantial Introduction by Carol Gluck, the volume explores the strengths of the Japanese economy, the issue of democracy and Japans political culture, Japans achievements in technology and the arts, and its relations with other Asian nations and the United States.