Table of Contents: “…Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Japan's surrender --…”
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Table of Contents: “…Emperor Hirohito's "Sacred Decisions" and the Political Process of Japan's Surrender /…”

Table of Contents: “…The beginnings -- The discovery of fission and Einstein's letter -- Marshall and the geneses of the Manhattan Project -- Organizing the Manhattan Project -- Intelligence operations -- Uncertainty, the bomb, and the Interim Committee -- Unconditional surrender and a planned invasion -- Potsdam and Trinity -- Japan's response to the Potsdam Declaration, Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- Japan surrenders -- A new age -- Marshall as a diplomat: secretary of state -- The final call to duty: secretary of defense.…”

Table of Contents: “…The acid test: The Allies at war -- The turning point -- Japan's surrender in China -- Part IV. The new China: Crash and burn -- National liberation war -- Exhaustion -- Epilogue: Transitions.…”

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Formation of the Regiment/Shanghai, China 1938 -- 1940 -- ch. 2 Back to Singapore/the Japanese Invasion of Malaya, 1940 -- 1941 -- ch. 3 The Battles of Gurun and Kampar -- ch. 4 The Battle for Singapore -- ch. 5 Escape Attempts -- ch. 6 Changi and the Thai/Burma Railway -- ch. 7 The Hellships -- ch. 8 Overseas Camps -- ch. 9 Japan Surrenders -- Homeward Bound.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Cold War Rising: Observing US-Soviet Dissonance Diplomatic Charades with the Soviet Union ; Military Showdown: Ending the War Without Two-Front Battles ; Japan's Surrender: Views of the Nation. -- Part IV. Inventing Japan's War: Eurasian Eclipse. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction : propaganda in the Manchukuo context, 1932-45 -- Laying the groundwork for the Japanese avant-garde propagandists -- Literature in service of the state : Yamada Seizaburô and right-wing proletarianism, 1931-43 -- Surrealism in service of the state : Fukuzawa Ichirô and associates, 1935-36 -- The lure of artistic vision and commercial prerogative : Ai Mitsu and the burden of representation, 1935 and 1943 -- Reflections of labour and the construction of the new state : Fuchikami Hakuyô and Manchuria graph, 1933-41 -- The Manchukuo publicity and news bureau's war of words and images : Mutô Tomio and the discourse of culture, 1938-43 -- The legitimization of a multi-ethnic literary culture in Manchukuo : Kawabata Yasunari's promotion of "Manchurian literature," 1941-44 -- Conclusion : the reflected utopia darkens : Manchukuo, imperial Japan's surrender, and postwar issues.…”

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