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Yoshida Shigeru : last Meiji man
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- Creator
- by Yoshida Shigeru ; edited by Hiroshi Nara ; with translations from Japanese by Yoshida Ken'ichi and Hiroshi Nara
- Format
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- [New edition]
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2007]
- ©2007
- Physical Details
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- xix, 313 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780742539327, 0742539326, 9780742539334, 0742539334
- OCLC
- ocm76820909
- Includes index.
- Mostly excerpts from his Kaisō jun̄en with the last 3 chapters added.
- Mostly excerpts from his Kaisō jun̄en with the last 3 chapters added.
- The unfolding tragedy -- The crisis breaks -- Aftermath of defeat -- Blueprint for an occupation -- General MacArthur and his aides -- My political apprenticeship -- The "Yoshida era" begins -- My first cabinet -- In opposition and an election victory -- The last three Yoshida cabinets -- The West revisited -- Old friends in Britain and the United States -- The postwar constitution -- Critics of the new constitution -- The purges -- Educational reform -- Police reform -- The Self-Defense Force -- Agricultural reform -- The postwar food crisis -- Labor reforms and after -- My views on Japan's labor movement -- The communists as a destructive force -- The San Francisco Peace Treaty -- Preparatory negotiations for peace -- The San Francisco Peace Conference -- The territorial question -- The U.S.-Japan Security Treaty -- The administrative agreement -- Korean War, peace, and independence -- My view on the Imperial Household -- Recollections of my days as a diplomat -- Recollections of friends