Frontcover 1
Copyright 6
Dedication 7
ACKNOWLEDGMENT 8
CONTENTS 9
NOTE 10
PROLOGUE 13
1 THE WEB 17
2 BORROWERS AND BUILDERS 44
3 THE NATIONAL FACE LIFTING 71
4 THE PARALYZED DEMOCRACY 104
5 THE WILL TO WAR 134
6 THE DEFEAT OF GLORY 162
7 THE EMPTY SHRINE 189
8 ADVANCING GARRISON ARMY 211
9 THE COMMUNIST ATTACK 247
10 RICE, MOUNTAINS AND MACHINES 277
11 FIVE KINDS OF HOPE 312
EPILOGUE 381
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Backcover 386

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Frank Gibney; Pacific Basin Institute

by Frank Gibney

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A newspaperman, an ex-Navy vice-admiral, a steel worker, a farmer, and the 124th Emperor of Japan himself--these are the fascinating heroes of Gibney's brilliant book about modern Japan. Strongly individual, every one of them, the five yet share the common inheritance of Japan's precocious but unstable past.
Through their lives and attitudes, Gibney gives us an invaluable analysis of this new sovereign nation so suddenly thrown into the world's power conflicts. He helps us understand the historical and social forces which make Japan what she is today--the old contracts and loyalties from which each of the Five Gentlemen is struggling to break away from his country. Their courageous efforts to weld a new Japan from the remains of the old society, and to come to terms with the present, are as exciting as it is important.
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A newspaperman, an ex-Navy vice-admiral, a steel worker, a farmer, and the 124th Emperor of Japan himself--these are the fascinating heroes of Gibney's brilliant book about modern Japan. Strongly individual, every one of them, the five yet share the common inheritance of Japan's precocious but unstable past.
Through their lives and attitudes, Gibney gives us an invaluable analysis of this new sovereign nation so suddenly thrown into the world's power conflicts. He helps us understand the historical and social forces which make Japan what she is today--the old contracts and loyalties from which each of the Five Gentlemen is struggling to break away from his country. Their courageous efforts to weld a new Japan from the remains of the old society, and to come to terms with the present, are as exciting as it is important.
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This classic account (1952) of the makers of "New Japan" tells the life stories of a journalist, an ex-Navy vice-admiral, a steel worker, a farmer, and Emperor Hirohito. Frank Gibney was a wartime U.S. Navy intelligence officer who became Time magazine correspondent during the American Occupation of Japan. He went on to be a major interpreter of Japan to Americans and America to Japanese, known as a knowledgeable, genial presence in the PBS series Pacific Century . In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Japan was a poor, broken, and troubled society. Many in both Japan and the West assumed that it would always be so. But Gibney reported on Japan in such telling and readable detail that we can see in this book both the now forgotten atmosphere of that time and the basis for the "Japanese miracle" to follow.

Now an eminent scholar of Japan currently affiliated with The Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College, Gibney wrote these profiles in 1951 and 1952. Though he was young at the time, his experience with Japan was already extensive (including two years as <i>Times</i> Bureau Chief in Tokyo, among other activities). He spoke fluent Japanese (learned at the Navy's wartime school). The profiles presented here were his effort to convey his understanding of Japanese culture. Except for the emperor, he knew all of the men personally. In a new introduction, he says that he has not fundamentally changed his ideas, but was a lot surer of them at 27 than at 77. He includes explanatory notes, but no bibliography or index. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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