Blowback

Business & Money

Johnson, Chalmers

Economics

Metropolitan Books

The godfather of Japanese revisionism, author of Miti and the Japanese Miracle and president of the Japan Policy Research Institute explains how--and why--Japan has become a world power in the past 25 years. Johnson lucidly explains here how the Japanese economy will thrive as it moves from a producer-dominated economy to a consumer-oriented headquarters for all of East Asia.

Japan: Who Governs?: The Rise of the Developmental State

W.W.Norton&Company

Dust jacket notes: "In 1949, in American-occupied Japan, the president of the Japanese National Railroads was run over by a train. His death may have been a suicide; it may have been a murder; it has never been explained. A few weeks later several other crimes involving the railways were committed. The most important of these was the wrecking by sabotage of a train at Matsukawa in which three persons died. The Matsukawa incident produced the greatest cause celebre in the history of law suits in Japan. Twenty workers, nineteen of them either Communists or trade-union leaders, were charged with the crime and brought to trial. Their case remained before the courts until 1970, when they were not only exonerated but paid damages by the Japanese Government for possibly having been victims of a frame-up by the prosecution. Mr. Johnson uses this comprehensive study of the Matsukawa case to analyze the Americans' attempt during the Occupation to introduce Anglo-American adversary proceedings into Japanese criminal trials, the change in Occupation policy that occurred in 1949 when the Americans became committed more to Japanese economic growth than to 'democratizing' Japan, the radicalization of left-wing politics in Japan, and the relationship between the Occupation and Japan's present status as the world's third-ranking industrial power. An exhaustive case study, the book examines in detail one of the most controversial criminal investigations and trials in the history of Japan. It also fully investigates the charges made in post-Occupation Japan that clandestine American agents may have committed the sabotage at Matsukawa. The account draws on many hitherto unused sources and memoirs, including the archives of the United States Occupation of Japan, and provides the first analysis in English of the Matsukawa case."

Conspiracy at Matsukawa

History

Asia

University of California Press

Autopsy on People's War

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Univ. Of California Pr.

Japanese Law in Context: Readings in Society, the Economy, and Politics (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

This is a wide-ranging selection of 130 readings in Japanese law. The essays, extracted from previously published books and articles, cover subjects including historical context, the civil law tradition, the legal services industry, dispute resolution, constitutional law, contracts, torts, criminal law, family law, employment law, corporate law, and economic regulation. This unique collection of readings is accompanied by the texts of the Japanese constitution and other basic laws.

Computers & Technology

West, Mark D.

Hendry, Joy

THOMPSON, Mark

Young, Leslie

Fallows, James

Shapiro, Martin

Becker, Gary S.

Chira, Susan

Van Wolferen, Karel

BOK, DEREK

Merryman, John Henry

McCubbins, Mathew D.

Bayley, David H.

Weingast, Barry R.

Field, Norma

Bernstein, Lisa

Magee, Stephen P.

Brock, William A.

Dubro, Alec

Roe, Mark J.

Nakazato, Minoru

Shleifer, Andrei

Lohr, Steve

Rohlen, Thomas P.

Murphy, Kevin M.

Vishny, Robert W.

Pascale, Richard

Noble, Gregory W.

Upham, Frank K.

Bryant, Taimie L.

Krauss, Ellis S.

Smith, Thomas C.

Kidder, Robert L.

Crabb, Kelly

Miyazawa, Setsuo

Foote, Daniel H.

Miller, Geoffrey P.

Fukao, Mitsuhiro

Muramatsu, Michio

Smith, Robert Eliot

Eng, Robert Y.

Gilson, Ronald J.

Abegglen, James

Abowd, John M.

Amaya, Naohiro

Ames, Walter

Asanuma, Banri

Calvert, Randall L.

Coleman, Samuel

Edwards, Linda N.

Fukushima, Glen S.

Haley, John O.

Hamilton, Constance

Heftel, Chris

Henderson, Dan Fenno

Kaplan, David S.

Kaplan, Steven N.

Kawashima, Takeyosi

Minton, Bernadette A.

Moran, Mark J.

Muto, Shunko

Notehelfer, F. G.

Olson Jr., Mancur

Parkinson, Lorraine

Sheard, Paul

Sklar, Deborah

Smith, Malcolm D. H.

Stalk Jr, George

Takasugi, Shingo

Tanaka, Hideo

Weinstein, David E.

Wiswell, Ella

Yokoyama, Minoru

Yonemoto, Kazuhiro

Zaloom, E. Anthony

Software

Harvard University Asia Center

In his prophetic book Blowback, Chalmers Johnson linked the CIA's clandestine activities abroad to disaster at home. In The Sorrows of Empire, he explored the ways in which the growth of American militarism has jeopardized our security. Now, in Nemesis, he shows how American imperialism is undermining the republic itself, both economically and politically. Drawing comparisons to empires past, Johnson explores in vivid detail the likely consequences of our dependence on a permanent war economy, and what it will mean when the globe's sole "hyperpower," no longer capable of paying for the vaulting ambitions of its leaders, becomes the greatest hyper-debtor of all time. In his stunning conclusion, Johnson suggests that the crisis of a financial breakdown could ultimately prove to be the only path to a renewed nation.

Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (The American Empire Project)

Blackstone Audiobooks

Exploring in vivid detail the likely consequences of America's dependence on a permanent war economy, Johnson's prophetic book shows how imperial overstretch is undermining the republic itself, economically and politically.

"Mr. Johnson's research on the Chinese Communists' wartime expansion, according to the documentation recorded by Japanese intelligence and his comparison of it with that of the Yugoslav Communists, is a pathbreaking work in comparative history."--John K. Fairbank.

Peasant Nationalism and Communist Power: The Emergence of Revolutionary China, 1937-1945

Stanford University Press

A classic study by a leading theorist of revolution, Revolutionary Change has gone through eleven printings since its appearance in 1966 and been translated into German, French, and Korean. This carefully revised edition not only brings the original analysis up to date but adds two entirely new chapters: one on terrorism, the most celebrated form of political violence throughout the 1970s, and one on theories of revolution from Brinton to the present day.

Revolutionary Change

Military

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