(Part 2) Best historical japan biographies according to redditors
We found 113 Reddit comments discussing the best historical japan biographies. We ranked the 27 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
Yeah I did a little google-fu and apparently there has been MUCH ado about these two getting married. They had trouble having a child and had to do IVF treatment which produced only a girl heir. But the issue being under the rules of succession a women cannot rule so they might change those rules to fix the issue. Which is pissing some old schoolers authoritarians off by being so progressive. Seems she might also be suffering from a mental breakdown or is suffering a long term mental or physical illness. It seems they won't give the public more details. So I changed my statement that it doesn't seem all peaches and creme for her these days.
Not to mention when this book was written the Japanese press and Internal ministry went APE SHIT.
http://www.amazon.com/Princess-Masako-Prisoner-Chrysanthemum-Throne/dp/1585425680
They compare she to a "Japanese Princess Di", which isn't good. I'm starting to D/L this book and intend on reading it. I've become more interested in this topic..
Yup, 11:01 or 11:02 AM, but the all-clear sounded at 8:30, so there probably wasn't anyone taking shelter in the church from a potential air raid.
Aug 9th, 1945 was a Thursday, but an unreferenced quote from wikipedia says that: "As Assumption of Mary (August 15) was near, Mass was held on the day and was well attended. Due to heat wave and collapsed stones all were killed." That info was probably from a book about Takashi Nagai, a converted Catholic doctor who was working at the medical college hospital.
Also, most of the churchgoers that weren't in attendance would live in the area that was destroyed by the bomb since the epicenter of the blast was a mere 500 meters from the church.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urakami_Cathedral
http://www.hprweb.com/2010/08/the-catholic-holocaust-of-nagasaki-why-lord/ (I haven't read this all but it looks well cited and contains snips from Nagai's book)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashi_Nagai
http://www.amazon.com/Song-Nagasaki-Takashi-Nagai-Scientist-Survivor/dp/158617343X
Japan Unbound - John Nathan
And other books. Alex Kerr?
Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath was also a really good book about the death march.
John Hersey's Hiroshima is a short book that follows a few specific Hibakusha through their experiences. I can't remember if it's 100% nonfiction or not, but it's a fucking chilling book, and an amazing one. I highly recommend it.
Are talking out of your ass? If you've ever taken a Japan studies course you'd know this is far from a settled issue even in the west.
Here's a rather recent book by a Western author that agrees more with the figurehead interpretation:
http://www.amazon.com/Emperor-Hirohito-Showa-Japan-Political/dp/1138009113
Invading sovereign countries? China was in the middle of a civil war. Since when has the U.S. or the European powers given a crap about the people's of other nations? We live off the backs of African's to this day. All of this is moot anyway, the real reason for world war 2 was to establish the state of Israel. They let Japan attack Pearl Harbor so that they would enter World War 2 with the people behind them. Japan wanted to become a prosperous imperial power much like the British empire. The rothschilds financed all sides of the war. They laid their roots in Japan through this man:
Takahashi Korekiyo