By 1925 the process of Japan's transition to a modern industrialised, westernised state was pretty much complete. Not only had the imperial tradition been restored with the Meiji Restoration in 1868, but some forms of democratic parliamentary institutions had been set up. However, during the years that followed, the so-called imperial democracy came under pressure as the Japanese sought to impose tight control over not only their own people but their neighbours as well. This impressive survey looks at developments at home, Japan's aggressive foreign policy particularly in China during the 1930s and 1940s, and her role in the Second World War. Finally, the post-war reconstruction orchestrated by the Americans is examined. The cut-off point is 1952 - the date when Allied Occupation formally came to an end and Japan once again became independent.
Tacoma’s vibrant Nihonmachi of the 1920s and '30s was home to a significant number of first generation Japanese immigrants and their second generation American children, and these families formed tight-knit bonds despite their diverse religious, prefectural, and economic backgrounds. As the city’s Nisei grew up attending the secular Japanese Language School, they absorbed the Meiji-era cultural practices and ethics of the previous generation. At the same time, they positioned themselves in new and dynamic ways, including resisting their parents and pursuing lives that diverged from traditional expectations. Becoming Nisei, based on more than forty interviews, shares stories of growing up in Japanese American Tacoma before the incarceration. Recording these early twentieth-century lives counteracts the structural forgetting and erasure of prewar histories in both Tacoma and many other urban settings after World War II. Lisa Hoffman and Mary Hanneman underscore both the agency of Nisei in these processes as well as their negotiations of prevailing social and power relations.
This new in-depth study of Hasegawa Nyozekan (1895–1969) examines his life and intellectual contributions as a pre-eminent liberal reformer through his role as a journalist and social critic, particularly in pre-war and wartime Japan.
Mary has worked so hard to be where she is today; a very successful lady. Not only does she care for the clients that come to see her but has had many positive results from the work that she does with them. Soon Mary will start her travels as she works her way through the UK meeting and enjoying the work that she will do with the Indigo children. She will teach them why it is that they are here on the earth plane at this particular time. They will develop and grow and move forward within their life, when they understand why they are here. Mary will do much good work within the schools with these children. She will help the teachers and the Head Teachers to understand these children a little more, so that everyone can work together for a common goal. Mary will then travel to America working with these children in the same way and then to India. Along the way she will appoint people who will teach others to carry on with the good work that she has started. This will enable Mary to travel all across the world teaching others and so on until there is a network of helpers who will do all they can to keep helping, not just Indigo children but all children. Our next book "The Past Lives of Mary Holt" is a sequel to this book. Mary questioned at the time when this book was finished "how can it be finished it has not come to any conclusion?" What I wanted to do was to give time to the readers to digest the information in this book first, before we carried on. With much love William and Mary Mary can be contacted through her web site http://www.maryholt.com/
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The personal correspondences of Mary Todd Lincoln create an intimate portrait of her life and marriage to Lincoln as well as her struggles after his death
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