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...John H. Boyle Ishiwara Kanji and Japan's Confrontation with the West . By Mark R. Peattie . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1975 . xix, 430 pp. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $16.50 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1976 1976 BOOK REVIEWS 683 most important...

... pages later, John Hunter Boyle contributes economical sketches of Ishiwara Kanji and Ishii Itaro fresh even to readers familiar with his China and Japan at War. Few other contributors match his command of his material. Of all the biographical pieces, Boyle's alone provides insight into the minds of his...

..., that it was no policy at all and thus presents a picture of a directionless, vacillating Japan. Boyle indicates that it was the clear (if misguided) plan of those who controlled Japanese politics throughout the war period. The chief opposition to the formation of this policy was General Ishiwara Kanji. Boyle treats...

... historians have been vaguely aware of the complicity of the Tokyo supreme command in the Mukden plot, evidence for this has been limited to reminiscences by the participants written from memory. Now, thanks to research in the military archives and the papers of Ishiwara Kanji, the author succeeds in drawing...

... 685 plans into real aircraft production (to cite the single item Ishiwara regarded as most critical). Finally, Peattie examines the relationship between personality and history, concluding that Ishiwara's personality "unconventional, abrasive, independent and impetuous" was a "key ingredient in his...

... was transferred from the General Affairs Bureau (Somubu) to the Operations Section (Sakusen\d); and, in December, a new War Leadership Section (Senso shido-fy) under Colonel Kawabe Torashiro was established. Both of these sections were under the Operations Division (Dainibu) headed by General Ishiwara Kanji...

... the stage for a second unilateral action by officers of the Kwantung Army aimed at direct Japanese control of Manchuria. Colonel Ishiwara Kanji's plan succeeded under the new circumstances, transforming the situation and setting the stage for full-scale conflict, first with China, ultimately with the United...

...Sharlie C. Ushioda Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 About our Ancestors . By Kunio Yanagita . Translated by Fanny Hagin Mayer and Ishiwara Yasuyo . Tokyo : Bunsyodo Printing . (Published by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.) 193 pp. n.p.l...

... son and successor (Chang Hsiieh-liang), political crises in Japan, and the onset of the Great Depression set the stage for a second unilateral action by officers of the Kwantung Army aimed at direct Japanese control of Manchuria. Colonel Ishiwara Kanji's plan succeeded under the new circumstances...

... approval in a strong position, and kicked it away through the recalcitrance of the army. By 1933, when Ishiwara Kanji and Tatekawa Yoshitsugu were dispatched to Geneva to monitor events, army recalcitrance had become arrogance. Yet the Lytton Report itself was by no means completely hostile to Japan...

... by Fanny Hagin Mayer and Ishiwara Yasuyo. Tokyo: Bunsyodo Printing. (Published by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.) 193 pp. n.p.l. Although the works of Yanagita Kunio (1875-1962) have been widely known and loved in Japan for almost half a century, because of the language barrier, few Westerners...

... Ishiwara, who, influenced by Nichiren, wrote a very interesting treatise entitled the "course of new Japan," in which he advocated for Japan agricultural selfsufficiency, a "controlled" state, and leadership in die Asian Third Force taking an independent stand between the United States and the Soviet Union...

... League Society, founded by the late Lt. General Ishiwara, who, influenced by Nichiren, wrote a very interesting treatise entitled the "course of new Japan," in which he advocated for Japan agricultural selfsufficiency, a "controlled" state, and leadership in die Asian Third Force taking an independent...

... that remained was "a system of irresponsibility that prevented the formulation and enforcement of a rational and consistent foreign policy" (p. 192). private papers of General Katakura, Ishiwara Since this thesis is cogently articulated and and Itagaki she dissects, with unquestioned impressively documented...

... papers of General Katakura, Ishiwara Since this thesis is cogently articulated and and Itagaki she dissects, with unquestioned impressively documented, it can not, in a authority, the deeds and motivations of the limited review, be thoroughly or adequately Kwantung Army between the outbreak...

... of practices and a stance toward the world of the dead that is certain to enrich the understanding of Japan for all who read it, and is certain to be as relevant to the Japan of tomorrow as it is for the Japan of today and yesterday. THOMAS P. ROHLEN University of California, Santa Cruz Ishiwara Kanji...

... [THOMAS 687 R. H. HAVENS] O'BRIEN, Dazai Osamu [IVAN MORRIS] 500 OKA, How to Wrap Five More Eggs: Traditional Japanese Packaging [JOAN HERTZOG] 699 OZAWA, Japan's Technological Challenge to the West, Kyo-1974: Motivation and Accomplishment [THOMAS 143 R. KERSHNER] PEATTIE, Ishiwara Kanji and Japan's...

... on important issues. Hirano's scholarly foray into areas not previously subjected to systematic inquiry reveals the utility of overseas Japanese journals like Manshil hyoron and materials housed in the National Diet Library like the Ishiwara Kanji papers. If there is a pervasive deficiency...

... liberalist interpretation. People such as Ishiwara Kanji 石原莞爾 and Prime Minister Zheng Xiaoxu 鄭孝胥 instead promoted a rhetoric of Confucian moralism voiced alternately as the Kingly Way ( wangdao/ōdō 王道) or, later, as the equally vague “spirit of national foundation” ( jianguo jingshen 建国精神). The framers...

... sexualized violence in the present. Later in the novel, Tōru learns that Noboru's uncle Yoshitaka, a wartime technocrat and logistics specialist, was dispatched to Manchukuo in 1932 to assess the region. During his service there, he became acquainted with Ishiwara Kanji, the historical initiator...