Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Summer 1990, Vol. 119, No. 3; Showa: The Japan of Hirohito

Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1990. Soft Cover. Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight copy with bright pages that have some underlining. General shelfwear to wrappers. Contents: Carol Gluck, "The Idea of Showa"; Masataka Kosaka, "The Showa Era (1926-1989)"; John W. Dower, "The Useful War"; Chalmers Johnson, "The People Who Invented the Mechanical Nightingale"; Makoto Iokibe, "Japan Meets the United States for the Second Time"; Herbert Passin, "The Occupation - Some Reflections"; Chikashi Moriguchi, "Rice and Melons - Japanese Agriculture in the Showa Era"; Michio Muramatsu, "Bringing Politics Back into Japan"; Shinichi Kitaoka, "Diplomacy and the Military in Showa Japan"; Shoichi Royama, "Money and the Japanese"; Edward J. Lincoln, "The Showa Economic Experience"; William W. Kelly, "Regional Japan: The Price of Prosperity and the Benefits of Dependency"; David W. Plath, "My-Car-isma: Motorizing the Showa Self"; Masakazu Yamazaki, "The Intellectual Community of the Showa Era": J. Thomas Rimer, "High Culture in the Showa Period"; Edward Seidensticker, "How They Have Looked to Us."; 9.0" (23 cm) tall; 298 pages.