Ishiwara Kanji and Japan's Confrontation with the West [Hardcover]

Mark R. Peattie (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 430 pages
• Publisher: Princeton University Press (March 1, 1975)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0691030995
• ISBN-13: 978-0691030999
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #782,336 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Difficult but neccesary reading, November 28, 2001

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This review is from: Ishiwara Kanji and Japan's Confrontation with the West (Hardcover)

This is a very difficult book. Not that the writer couldn't write: it is well written. But the subject is very complicated. Ishiwara's thoughts about a confrontation between empires are for modern men not easy to understand. Just like the impact of these ideas on the Japanese military. His handeling in Manchuria according to these ideas brought him fame. But in later times the young officers rebuked him, because he wouldn't allow them the same freedom of action he himself took in 1931. Peattie tells the story of his life and thinking in a very well manner. But you have to know a lot about Japan during the wars to understand his writings completely. A fine book for lovers of Japanese history.