War and militarism in modern Japan : : issues of history and identity / / editor, Guy Podoler.

• Author: International Conference on Japan in Honour of Professor Ben-Ami Shillony
• TeilnehmendeR: Podoler, Guy, 1967-; International Conference on Japan in Honour of Professor Ben-Ami Shillony (2007 : Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Brill eBook titles 2010
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Notes: "Published to mark the distinguished academic career of ben-Ami Shillony, who retired from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2006" -- Dust jacket.; "This volume is a fruit of 'The International Conference on Japan in Honour of Professor Ben-Ami Shillony', which took place at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, between 29 April and 2 May 2007" -- pages [iv].

A considerable amount of writing has been published on Japan at war in the Second World War, and more recently scholars have been revisiting the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–5; whereas this volume strives to examine Japan’s twentieth-century approach to war and militarism in a wider perspective, bring...

Table of Contents

• pt. 1. History
• pt. 2. Identity in history
• pt. 3. Identity constructed.