About this title: In 1945, Japan surrendered unconditionally to the United States and its allies, thereby planting the seed from which would spring one of the world's most successful and stable democracies. In an age when democracy is often pursued, yet rarely accomplished, in which failed democracies are found throughout Africa, Latin America, and Asia, Japan's transformation from an utterly defeated military power into a thriving constitutional democracy commands attention. It has long been assumed that postwar Japan was largely the making of America, that democracy was simply imposed on a defeated land. Yet ...
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 3/18/2004
ISBN-13:9780195171761ISBN:0195171764
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780195171761ISBN:0195171764
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 234x156. This book is printed on demand. (allow 1-2 weeks for printing) (424) tackling a timely and we1ghty subject, moore and robinson take the controversial stand that the constitution of japan was not "imposed", as conventional opinion has it, as a document of defeat by the allied occupying forces under general macarthur. rather, the authors argue that the 1946 constitution was in essence the product of a "joint conspiracy" between macarthur's occupation and the yoshida ... read more
Edition: 1st Edition 1st Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford U.P., New York, NY
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780195151169ISBN:019515116X
Description: Very Fine/Very Fine * Like New! ! * W/Dust Jacket 409pp(Index) Clean, tight & bright. NO ink names, bookplates, DJ tears etc. ISBN 019515116X. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 2004-03-18
ISBN-13:9780195171761ISBN:0195171764
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