| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
DS 888.5 .B47 |
| Copynumber |
1 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
13763 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - (hardbound)
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| Language Code |
- Language code of text/sound track or separate title - eng
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Bergamini, David
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Japan's imperial conspiracy
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - by David Bergamini
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - New York :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - William Morrow and Co.,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c1971.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - xlvii, 778 p.; 779 - 1612 p.
- Dimensions - 22 x 15 cm.
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| Media Type |
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - The thesis of this book, which was highly controversial when it first appeared, was that Emperor Hirohito was actively involved in the planning and prosecution of the war fought by Japan first against China in the 1930s, and then against the US and its allies from 1941. David Bergamini, who was born in Tokyo and raised in Asia, spoke Japanese and was familiar with Japan and China. He served as a writer and editor for Life magazine and then became a free-lance writer, devoting six years of research and writing, including a year in Japan. He links the Japanese Emperor with the Rape of Nanking, the various atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers during the war, and the overall direction of the war effort. He was no stranger to the Philippines: he was in Baguio in 1941 and was interned there when the Japanese invaded. He spent three years in a Japanese internment camp (and wrote about the experience in a novel, "The Fleet in the Window"); some of his experiences are reflected in this book. With its explosive revelations, based on privileged and unidentified individuals, the book was severely criticized by Japanese experts and virtually pulled off the shelves; Bergamini himself was blacklisted by scholars and publishers. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Gowen, Vincent H. (Vincent Herbert), b. 1893.
- Dates associated with a name - 1901-1989.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1935-1945
- Geographic subdivision - Japan.
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| Subject Geographic Name |
- Geographic name - Japan
- General subdivision - Politics and government
- Chronological subdivision - 1926-1945.
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| Index Termuncontrolled |
- Uncontrolled term - Emperor Hirohito
- Uncontrolled term - Japan
- Uncontrolled term - Japan's road to war
- Uncontrolled term - Japanese occupation of Southeast Asia (and the Philippines)
- Uncontrolled term - Pacific War
- Uncontrolled term - Sino-Japanese War
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