The Japanese empire : grand strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War / S.C.M. Paine, United States Naval War College.

"The Japanese experience of war from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century presents a stunning example of the meteoric rise and shattering fall of a great power. As Japan modernized and became the one non-European great power, its leaders concluded that an empire on the Asian mainlan...

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