01682nad a2200217M  4500020001500000040000800015082002600023245004300049260005900092300003600151520098700187650002501174650002501199650003301224700001701257700002501274700002201299700001801321710004301339856008201382  a0691043825  cMiU  a950 PRI 1996 A101 Or.04aThe Japanese wartime empire, 1931-1945  aPrinceton, N.J. :bPrinceton University Press,cc1996.  axlvii, 375 p. :bill. ;c25 cm.1 a"With this book the editors complete the three-volume series on modern Japanese colonialism and imperialism that began with The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945 (Princeton, 1983) and The Japanese Informal Empire in China, 1895-1937 (Princeton, 1989). The Japanese military takeover in Manchuria between 1931 and 1932 was a critical turning point in East Asian history. It marked the first surge of Japanese aggression beyond the boundaries of its older colonial empire and set Japan on a collision course with China and Western colonial powers from 1937 through 1945. These essays seek to illuminate some of the more significant processes and institutions during the period when the empire was at war: the creation of a Japanese-dominated East Asian economic bloc centered in northeast Asia, the mobilization of human and physical resources in the older established areas of Japanese colonial rule, and the penetration and occupation of Southeast Asia." -- Text from book jacket. 0aWorld War, 1939-1945 0aWorld War, 1939-1945 0aSino-Japanese War, 1937-19451 aDuus, Peter,1 aMyers, Ramon Hawley,1 aPeattie, Mark R.,1 aZhou, Wanyao.2 aAmerican Council of Learned Societies.40uhttp://metlibrary.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.01938