Название: The Bushido Code: Words of Wisdom from Japan's Greatest Samurai Автор: Tadashi Kamiko Издательство: Tuttle Publishing Год: 2023 Страниц: 196 Язык: английский Формат: pdf (true) Размер: 10.1 MB Words of wisdom from great samurai leaders: A collection of inspiring essays and aphorisms from Japan's leading warriors. Samurai warrior leaders had to deal with grim conditions of life, death and survival. But such men were not simply rough uneducated fighters: they often personified the Far Eastern ideal of balancing cultural awareness and artistic expertise with high martial abilities. Their sayings, precepts and the anecdotes about them are informed by a broad spectrum of interests, many of which are still of great value today. This book provides English translations of the essential thoughts and teachings of 55 great Samurai leaders--from Takeda Shingen and Oda Nobunaga to Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu--the men who unified Japan and established a system of government that survived for generations.
Название: Blossoms in the Wind: Human Legacies of the Kamikaze Автор: Mordecai G. Sheftall Издательство: Dutton Caliber Год: May 2023 Страниц: 682 Язык: английский Формат: pdf, epub (true), mobi Размер: 10.2 MB A revelatory and groundbreaking account of Imperial Japan’s kamikaze—the suicide pilots of World War II—as told through the eyes of the survivors. In the final year of World War II, a horrific new weapon was unleashed in the Pacific: the kamikaze. Idealistic, young Japanese men had been taught that there was no greater glory than to sacrifice one’s life to defend the homeland. Now, with the war all but lost, thousands of these determined warriors were hastily trained in the basics of piloting an airplane, then sent out in waves to crash into enemy warships, suicide attacks that killed altogether some seven thousand American sailors. But what of those men who took the sacred oath to die in battle and lived? In the wake of 9/11, ethnographer M.G. Sheftall was given unprecedented access to the cloistered community of Japan’s last remaining kamikaze survivors. As an American fluent in Japanese, Sheftall was the only westerner to ever sit face-to-face with these men and hear their stories. The result is a fascinating journey into the lives, indoctrination, and mindsets of the kamikaze, through the eyes of participants who are now lost to time.
Название: To the End of the Earth: The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945 Автор: Jоhn С. МсМаnus Издательство: Dutton Caliber Год: 2023 Страниц: 448 Язык: английский Формат: epub (true) Размер: 26.9 MB From the liberation of the Philippines to the Japanese surrender, the final volume of John C. McManus's trilogy on the US Army in the Pacific War. The dawn of 1945 finds a US Army at its peak in the Pacific. Allied victory over Japan is all but assured. The only question is how many more months—or years—of fight does the enemy have left. John C. McManus’s magisterial series, described by the Wall Street Journal as being “as vast and splendid as Rick Atkinson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Liberation Trilogy,” returns with this brilliant final volume. On the island of Luzon, a months-long stand-off between US and Japanese troops finally breaks open, as American soldiers push into Manila, while paratroopers and amphibious invaders capture nearby Corregidor. The Philippines are soon liberated, and Allied strategists turn their eyes to China, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and the Japanese home islands themselves. Readers will walk in the boots of American soldiers and officers, braving intense heat, rampant disease, and a by-now suicidal enemy, determined to kill as many opponents as possible before defeat, and they will encounter Japanese soldiers faced with the terrible choice between capitulation or doom.
Название: End of Empire: One Hundred Days in 1945 that Changed Asia and the World Автор: David P. Chandler, Robert Cribb Издательство: NIAS Press Год: 2016 Страниц: 353 Язык: английский Формат: pdf (true) Размер: 18.6 MB European events are dominating global public discussions and reminiscences of World War II though no doubt Hiroshima will be remembered on 6 August as usual. Thereafter, the 70th anniversaries of Indonesian, Vietnamese and Korean independence will get mainly local attention. Aiming to redress this imbalance, "˜End of Empire' focuses on a brief, 100-day period at the end of the war across a broad sweep of eastern Asia "“ a time when the Indonesian and Vietnamese revolutions were born, the fragile wartime truce been Communists and Nationalists in China began to fray, and the first steps were made in Japan towards a new democratic order. Following a chronological order, the volume combines daily events with commentary, photographs, maps and personal accounts. More importantly, it is part of a radical, multi-faceted project to commemorate the period not just in print but also on screen and in "˜real-time broadcasts' published day by day. Here, perhaps, is the form of scholarly publishing and learning of the future but without abandoning traditional standards. The Second World War began in Asia, with the Japanese invasion of China in July 1937; it ended there with Japan’s surrender on 15 August 1945.
Название: Defenders of Japan: The Post-Imperial Armed Forces 1946-2016, A History Автор: Garren Mulloy Издательство: Hurst & Company., Oxford University Press Год: 2021 Страниц: 320 Язык: английский Формат: epub Размер: 10.1 MB Japan's post-war armed forces are a paradox, both embarrassing remnants of the past and valuable repositories of experience. This book charts the development of the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) from 1954 as both unorthodox military institutions and servants of a civil society that decries militarism. Investigating JSDF contributions to Japanese and global security, the evolution of such contributions during and after the Cold War, and their possible reconfiguration for Japan's security needs ahead, Garren Mulloy offers insight into the Forces' past, present and future. He explores the characteristics and contradictions of Japanese policy, including novel approaches in response to an increasingly assertive China, the latent threat of North Korea and contributory pressure from the US.
Название: Heavenly Warriors: Evolution of Japan's Military, 500-1300 Автор: William Wayne Farris Издательство: Harvard University Asia Center ISBN: 0674387031 Год: 1996 Формат: PDF Страниц: 400 Размер: 73,8 МБ Язык: Английский "In a government, military matters are the essential thing," said Japan's "Heavenly Warrior," the Emperor Temmu, in 684. Heavenly Warriors traces in detail the evolutionary development of weaponry, horsemanship, military organization, and tactics from Japan's early conflicts with Korea up to the full-blown system of the samurai. Enhanced by illustrations and maps, and with a new preface by the author, this book will be indispensable for students of military history and Japanese political history.
Название: Whirlwind: The Air War Against Japan, 1942-1945 Автор: Barrett Tillman Издательство: Simon & Schuster ISBN: 1416584412 Год: 2010 Формат: PDF Страниц: 360 Размер: 120,9 МБ Язык: Английский Whirlwind is the only book to examine in depth the human drama behind the most important bombing campaign in history. While the air war against Nazi Germany has been covered in-depth by many books, Barrett Tillman, a renowned authority on military aircraft and the air war in the Pacific, is the first to tackle the air war against Japan.
Название: Clash of Empires in South China: The Allied Nations' Proxy War with Japan, 1935-1941 Автор: Franco David Macri Издательство: University Press of Kansas ISBN: 0700621083 Год: 2015 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 512 Размер: 1,9 МБ Язык: Английский Japan's invasion of China in 1937 saw most major campaigns north of the Yangtze River, where Chinese industry was concentrated. The southern theater proved a more difficult challenge for Japan because of its enormous size, diverse terrain, and poor infrastructure, but Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek made a formidable stand that produced a veritable quagmire for a superior opponent-a stalemate much desired by the Allied nations.
Автор: Мушинский А.Ф. Название: Обиходные выражения японского языка Издательство: Восточная книга Язык: Русский, японский Год: 2010 Формат: PDF Размер: 10 Mb Кол-во страниц: 80 Описание: В предлагаемом учебном пособии дается более широкое, по сравнению с обычными разговорниками, толкование значений основных обиходных выражений современного японского языка и рассмотрены особенности их употребления в различных коммуникативных ситуациях.
Автор: Sandra Buckley Название: Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture Издательство: L.;N.Y.: Routledge Год: 2001 Язык: английский ISBN: 978-0415143448 Формат: pdf Размер: 13,6 mb Кол-во страниц: 664 Описание: This Encyclopedia is a new reference that reflects the vibrant, diverse and evolving culture of modern Japan, spanning from the end of the Japanese Imperialist period in 1945 to the present day.
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