In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army (Studies in War, Society, and the Military)

1. Tradition And Circumstances: The Imperial Japanese Army's Tactical Response To Khalkhin-gol, 1939 -- 2. The Development Of Imperial Japanese Army Amphibious Warfare Doctrine -- 3. Imperial Japanese Army Strategy And The Pacific War (1941-1945) -- 4. An Allied Interpretation Of The Pacific War -- 5. U.s. Army And Imperial Japanese Army Doctrine During World War Ii -- 6. Trained In The Hardest School -- 7. Adachi Hatazo: A Soldier Of His Emperor -- 8. A Signals Intercept Site At War -- 9. Leyte: Unanswered Questions -- 10. Japanese Preparations For The Defense Of The Homeland -- 11. Intelligence Forecasting For The Invasion Of Japan: Previews Of Hell -- 12. Chasing A Decisive Victory: Emperor Hirohito And Japan's War With The West (1941-1945). Edward J. Drea. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [271]-284) And Index. Japan's war in Asia and the Pacific from 1937 to 1945 remains a subject of great interest, yet the wartime Japanese army remains little understood outside Japan. Most published accounts rely on English-language works written in the 1950s and 1960s. The Japanese-language sources have remained relatively inaccessible to western scholars in part due to the difficulty of the language, a difficulty the author, who reads Japanese fluently, surmounts.In a series of searching examinations of the structure, ethos, and goals of the Japanese military establishment, Edward J. Drea offers new material on its tactics, operations, doctrine, and leadership. Based on original military documents, official histories, court diaries, and Emperor Hirohito's own words, these twelve essays introduce western readers to fifty years of Japanese scholarship about the war and Japan's military institutions. In addition, Drea uses recently declassified Allied intelligence documents related to Japan to challenge existing views and conventional wisdom about the war. In a series of searching examinations of the structure, ethos, and goals of the Japanese military establishment, Drea offers new material on its tactics, operations, doctrine, and leadership. Based on original military documents, official histories, court diaries, and Emperor Hirohito's own words, the author introduces Western readers to Japanese scholarship about the war and Japan's military institutions. In addition he uses declassified Allied intelligence documents related to Japan to challenge existing views and conventional wisdom about the war Japan's war in Asia and the Pacific from 1937 to 1945 remains a subject of great interest, yet the wartime Japanese army remains little understood outside Japan. In a series of searching examinations of the structure, ethos, and goals of the Japanese military establishment, this title offers fresh material on its tactics, operations, and doctrine.