Memoir by Prince Konoe

On December 16, 1945, Prince Konoe committed suicide after refusing to collaborate with U.S. Army officer Bonner Fellers in "Operation Blacklist." His refusal t

As the first book-length annotated bibliography of English language sources, this volume offers a compilation of the Allied nation's trials of Japanese war crim

"By the time of Japan's surrender in 1945, an entire generation had grown up knowing nothing but conflict; but the transformation of Japan into a militarist pow

Taking the example of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima as a case in point, Francis Winters analyzes the ethics of warfare, demonstrating how the examples of Wor

The blame for a country's mistakes often falls on its leaders. In some cases, however, a leader's greatest mistake is to promote the mistaken goals of his peopl

Stalin was a master of deception, disinformation, and camouflage, by means of which he gained supremacy over China and defeated imperialism on Chinese soil. Thi

In this biography Oka Yoshitake examines the life and times of this enigmatic man, dedicated to Japan's imperialist mission. Konoe plays a pivotal role in the C

The book examines how the United States and Japan—despite their sharp differences in cultural, historical, and geographical backgrounds—established a bilate