Soldiers of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Army.(Brief Article)

The Historian | March 22, 1993| | Copyright

Meirion and Susie Harris succeed admirably in pointing out the terrible duality of the modem Japanese soldier. This is their second work on the Japanese military after Sheathing the Sword: The Demilitarization of Japan, 1945-52 (1987). Here the authors probe into the deeper past of the Imperial Japanese Army. They pick up the story in the late Tokugawa period, when Omura Masajiro translated German military theory that paved the way for general conscription in 1869. It ends in 1945 with the removal of his statue from the national shrine of war dead, when, after seven decades, ...

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