TY - BOOK ID - 78385371 TI - Post-war Japan as a sea power PY - 2015 SN - 9781350011083 9781472526519 9781472522320 9781472526823 147252232X 1472526511 1472526821 9781474210850 1474210856 1350011088 PB - London DB - UniCat KW - Sea-power KW - J4884 KW - J4880.90 KW - Dominion of the sea KW - Military power KW - Naval policy KW - Navy KW - Sea, Dominion of the KW - Seapower KW - Military readiness KW - Naval art and science KW - Naval history KW - Naval strategy KW - Navies KW - Japan: Defense and military -- navy KW - Japan: Defense and military -- history -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary KW - Japan. KW - Imperial Japanese Navy KW - Dai Nippon Kaigun KW - Dai Nippon Teikoku Kaigun KW - Nippon Teikoku Kaigun KW - Japan KW - History, Naval. KW - Polemology KW - anno 1900-1999 KW - anno 2000-2009 KW - anno 2010-2019 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78385371 AB - In Post-war Japan as a Sea Power, Alessio Patalano incorporates new, exclusive source material to develop an innovative approach to the study of post-war Japan as a military power. This archival-based history of Asia's most advanced navy, the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF), looks beyond the traditional perspective of viewing the modern Japanese military in light of the country's alliance with the US. The book places the institution in a historical context, analysing its imperial legacy and the role of Japan's shattering defeat in WWII in the post-war emergence of Japan as East Asia's 'sea power' ER -