A "behind-the-scenes account of the 116 days leading up to the Americans attack on Hiroshima"--Dust jacket flap.

Teaches important dates and facts about the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

The story of world traveler Eliza Scidmore, whose love of Japanese cherry trees inspired her decades-long effort to bring the trees to Washington, D.C.

Article Nine of Japan's postwar constitution, drafted in 1946 under U.S. Occupation, claims that the Japanese people "forever renounce the use of force as a means of settling international disputes." During the Cold War, the alliance with the United States allowed Japan to develop a largely defensive military, the Self-Defense Forces. Yet in the decades since, Japan has considered new ways to use its military. Demands from Washington for greater Japanese...

A history of the combative military, diplomatic, and economic relations among China, Japan, and the United States since the 1970s-and the potential crisis that awaits them Richard McGregor's Asia's Reckoning is a compelling account of the widening geopolitical cracks in a region that has flourished under an American security umbrella for more than half a century. The toxic rivalry between China and Japan, two Asian giants consumed with endless history...