...Theodore McNelly The Yoshida Memoirs. The Story of Japan in Crisis . By Shigeru Yoshida . Trans. by Kenichi Yoshida . Boston : Houghton Mifflin , 1962 . x , 291 . $5.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962 108 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES tempting to gain...

...H. J. Timperley Abstract In studying the background of Japan's expansionist policy it is necessary to take into account the part played by Yoshida Shōin, one of the most picturesque and colorful personalities in modern Japanese history. Yoshida was one of the outstanding figures of the movement...

...John Curtis Perry Winners in Peace, MacArthur, Yoshida, and Postwar Japan . By Richard B. Finn . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1992 . xvii–xxi, 413 pp. $35.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 921 Winners in Peace...

...Douglas H. Mendel, Jr. Abstract Many Japanese rose to political greatness during the turbulent history of modern Japan from the collapse of the Tokugawa regime in 1867 to the recovery of independence in 1952. Such men as Itō, Yamagata, Ōkuma, Konoe, Tōjō, and Yoshida (to name only a few of the more...

... for the war in East Asia scour the trial proceedings for failures of logic and evidence that demonstrate to their satisfaction that the “Tokyo trial view of history” is nothing but anti-Japanese distortion and fabrication (Yoshida 2000, 111–14). For both sides, the Tokyo judgment is fuel for ideological fire...

...Linda C. Ehrlich Ozu's Anti-Cinema . By Yoshida Kiju . Translated by Daisuke Miyao and Kyoko Hirano . Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, no. 49. Ann Arbor, Mich. : Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan , 2003 . xx, 178 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $22.00 (paper...

...Richard H. Mitchell Requiem for Battleship Yamato . By Yoshida Mitsuru . Translated, and with an introduction, by Richard H. Minear . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 1985 . xxxvi, 152 pp. Translator's Introduction, Illustrations, Notes. $16.95. Copyright © The Association...

... is the Yoshida Doctrine, that combination of conservative pacifism and adversarial trade that Japan distilled from former Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida's policies during and after the Korean War. It should be noted that Pyle himself played a role in developing the concept of a Yoshida Doctrine, as some...

... were social revolutionaries, serious political thinkers, and institutional innovators. To argue his case, Huber examines the writings and political careers of Choshu activists associated with the Sonjuku group. A private academy headed by Yoshida Shoin, the Shoka Sonjuku produced numerous Restoration...

...Madeleine Zelin Salt Production Techniques in Ancient China: The Aobo Tu . By Yoshida Tora . Translated and revised by Hans Ulrich Vogel . Leiden, New York, Köln : E. J. Brill , 1993 . xxv, 309 pp. GLD 135.00; $77.14. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994...

... struck in the postwar Japanese-American alliance. Pyle builds his analysis around a dialectical confrontation. The opening thesis is the Yoshida Doctrine, that combination of conservative pacifism and adversarial trade that Japan distilled from former Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida's policies during...

...Andrew L. Markus Tanrokubon: Rare Books of Seventeenth-Century Japan . By Kogorō Yoshida . Translated and adapted by Mark A. Harbison . New York : Kodansha International , 1984 . 228 pp. Illustrations, Notes, Glossary, Selected Bibliography, Index. $60. Copyright © Association...

... would make possible greater national unity. Their program captured the allegiance of neither conservatives nor extremists, who joined hands to remove the outstanding statesman Yoshida Toyo from the scene. There followed an era of extremist ascendancy on the national scene in which Tosa and Choshu men...

...Edwin Lee Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 Ii Naosuke . By Yoshida Tsunekichi . (Jimbutsu Sōsho, No. 113.) Tokyo : Yoshikawa Kōbunkan , 1963 . 10, 452. Illus., Genealogy, Chronology, Bibliography. ¥450. BOOK REVIEWS 163 Ii Naosuke. By YOSHIDA TSUNEKICHI...

... the study of Japan's foreign relations is involved. Rand Corporation PAUL F. LANGER The Yoshida Memoirs. The Story of Japan in Crisis. By SHIGERU YOSHIDA. Trans, by Kenichi Yoshida. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962. x, 291. $5.50. Yoshida's outlook is staunchly conservative. Japan embarked on World War II...

... discussion of the postwar period, when Japan reentered international society under the guidance of the United States. This chapter also details the formulation of the so-called Yoshida Doctrine, which formed the basis of Japan's postwar grand strategy, nicely leading into the core of the book, chapter 8...

... concentrates solely on Yoshida Shoin in the apparent belief, though never articulated by the author, that this thinker represents both a culmination in concept formation and "the opening of a period of implementation, beyond the scope of this investigation" (Preface, v The promise of the second half...

... by scholars such as Inoue Kiyoshi and Royama Masamichi; and several publications by former Prime Minister Yoshida. A valuable source published subsequent ro the Japanese bibliography is the massive, single-volume reproduction of newspapers issued by the more radical wing of the labor movement: Rōdō Junpōsha...

... W S K O R E A 807 sound and color (and who never incorporated widescreen aesthetics) a director who understood human lives as incapable of creating complete novelty. In fact, Yoshida even describes Ozu as a man of anti-history (p. 125). An unusual aspect of Yoshida s interpretation is his...

... and Shinto thought in the Tokugawa period. Again, the sympathetic treatment of Norinaga's faith in Amaterasu helps us to appreciate how this deity could become an object of worship endowed with qualities approaching those of a personal savior, in the thinking of late Tokugawa loyalists such as Yoshida Shoin...