Japan Occupation

This illuminating study explores the ways in which the shattering defeat of the Japanese in World War II, followed by over six years of American military occupation, affected every level of Japanese society. The author describes the countless ways in which the Japanese met the challenge of "starting over", from top-level manipulations concerning the fate of Emperor Hirohito to the hopes, fears, and activities of ordinary men and women in every walk of life.

There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, "Two tigers cannot share the same mountain." However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and tension with each other. In his latest entertaining and thought-provoking narrative travelogue, Michael Booth sets out to discover how deep, really, the enmity is between these three "tiger" nations and what prevents them from making peace.

The American occupation of Japan holds a singular and problematic place in the histories both of Japan and of American foreign policy. For the Japanese, the occupation marked the transition from war to peace, from authoritarianism to democracy, and from privation to plenty, making it a passage from one of the darkest chapters in Japanese history to one of the brightest.

The war did not end in 1945. It stopped — and then five years of improvisation decided what it had meant. In the summer of the surrender, Europe had no functioning economy, no reliable food supply, and something over forty million people living somewhere other than where they belonged. Japan had lost a quarter of its national wealth and most of its cities. Neither defeated country had a government in any sense a lawyer would recognise. Where plans for the peace existed, they were abandoned within months. What replaced them was improvisation under deadline — and the improvisations became...

Inspired by the life of Easton’s grandmother, White Mulberry is a rich, deeply moving portrait of a young Korean woman in 1930s Japan who is torn between two worlds and must reclaim her true identity to provide a future for her family.

Dive into the gripping military history of an ambitious empire colliding with global powers during World War II. Perfect for an immersive commute, this historical deep dive transports you from rapid industrialization to devastating conflict across the Pacific. Witness the aggressive expansion...

A hidden army. A secret alliance. A war that changed Asia. In the West, the Second World War is often remembered through Normandy, Stalingrad, Pearl Harbor, Iwo Jima and the road to Berlin. But in China, another vast war had already been raging for years — a war of occupation, guerrilla resistance, political betrayal and clandestine operations. The Dragon’s Shadow Army tells the forgotten story of the New Fourth Army, the Communist-led guerrilla force that fought behind Japanese lines while China’s Nationalists and Communists held together an uneasy anti-Japanese alliance. It was a ...

An Eyrie of Eagles is the 18th book in the New England Series, set in an America in which George Washington was killed at the Battle of Long Island in 1776, and the Revolution was crushed. The British Empire, turning the crushing weight of New England’s industrial and technological power against the Empire of Japan, now occupies the Japanese Home Islands. But there is a price to be paid for victory, and deep, unhealed physical and psychic scars to the body politic of New England and its peoples; the Mexican, and then the Pacific War have undermined age-old assumptions and brought New ...

“A powerful evocation of post-war Tokyo, Japan's rebirth during the American occupation under General MacArthur, and the endurance of the human heart.” The Japanese-American Friendship Society. She stared at him, her lips pursed together, appearing a bit angry, and then she spoke to him in Japanese, “Your Japanese is very good. Why?” “I've lived here most of my life.” “When are you returning to America?” “I don't know.” “There's going to be a war,” she said. With war between the U.S. and Imperial Japan looming in the fall of 1941, Colton Hancock, who grew up in Tokyo...

1942 – AMERICA The war is over. But the world is far from peaceful. In the aftermath of the Pacific conflict that forced Japan’s surrender, the United States stands victorious—yet increasingly isolated. Europe is locked in a massive war as a united continent fights to stop the Soviet advance. China has emerged from civil war under Communist rule. Japan lies under American occupation, rebuilding quietly beneath watchful eyes. At home, a different revolution is beginning. Daniel “Big Dan” Wilson never intended to become a national figure. A six-foot-three restaurant owner from ...

Private Detective Jobe Carson and the love of his life Anne are enjoying a Vancouver Island whale-watching vacation when an assassin at a taco truck completely upends Jobe’s reality. Turns out what he thought were the mundane memories of his deceased father Maclynn’s 1948 army stint in Japan weren’t quite accurate. Nor were the crazy tales Maclynn had begun to tell in the years before he died. Jobe had thought they were the latter-day ravings of his dad’s dementia-ravaged mind. In truth, Maclynn actually did play a part in an international espionage escapade. The story goes back and...

Douglas MacArthur is best remembered for his adaptability, a quality which hoisted him to his greatest accomplishments. Adaptability now reigns as the most indispensable trait for high military leadership in this era of technological leaps, which guarantee radical changes in the nature of war during the span of an ordinary career.

In February 1946, in an occupied port city in defeated Japan, an American soldier from rural Alabama began hunting for a string of pearls to bring home to his wife. He had been gone almost a year. He had seven months still ahead of him. He was thirty-four years old, the father of two small boys, and he had never thought about pearls before the war. Loose Pearls is the story behind those pearls — and behind the 548 wartime letters that finally brought him home. Drawn from the surviving correspondence between Woodrow and Vera Bonner from March 1945 through September 1946, the book follows ...

Though scarcely mentioned in the world of early 21st century politics, Manchuria represented a key region of Asia during the first half of the 20th century. Once the heartland of the fierce Manchu empire, this northeastern Chinese region's rich natural resources made it a prize for nations in the process of entering the modern age, and three ambitious nations in the midst of such a transformation lay close enough to Manchuria to attempt to claim it: Japan, Russia, and China.