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Military Histories of Modern Japan: A Review Essay - Samurai to Soldier: Remaking Military Service in Nineteenth-Century Japan. By D. Colin Jaundrill. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2016. xii, 229 pp. ISBN: 9781501703096 (cloth, also available as e-book). - Curse on This Country: The Rebellious Army of Imperial Japan. By Danny Orbach. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2017. x, 367 pp. ISBN: 9781501705281 (cloth, also available as e-book). - Japan's Postwar Military and Civil Society: Contesting a Better Life. By Tomoyuki Sasaki. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. xiv, 208 pp. ISBN: 9781472525550 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 August 2018
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