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"The Japanese Monarchy, 1931-1991", which created a sensation when first published in Japanese, clarifies US policies toward Japan's symbol emperor system before, during and after World War II. As American ambassador to Japan from 1932 to 1945, Joseph Clark Grew had contacts with groups close to the emperor as well as leading "moderates". Returning to the US after the outbreak of the war, he made many speeches, first condemning Japanese aggression, but later changing his theme from war to peace, even to suggesting that the emperor would be a key asset in stabilising Japanese society after the war, a view which was widely criticised at the time. Later, as under secretary of state, Grew came t...
"This book reprints the 1930 and the 1936 exhibition catalogues based on archival copies in the Museum's Art [Toledo Museum of Art] Reference Library. The two paperbound catalogues were somewhat different in size; they have been photographically adjusted to a trim size of six by nine inches. A new title page has been added and this brief forward. A concordance of Toledo Museum accessions from these exhibitions and an index of artists' names, as transliterated in the original calalogues, have been added."--from Foreward
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