Showa: The Japan of Hirohito Book

	Preface
	Introduction
	The Idea of Showa	1
	The Showa Era (1926-1989)	27
	The Useful War	49
	The People Who Invented the Mechanical Nightingale	71
	Japan Meets the United States for the Second Time	91
	The Occupation--Some Reflections	107
	Rice and Melons--Japanese Agriculture in the Showa Era	131
	Bringing Politics Back into Japan	141
	Diplomacy and the Military in Showa Japan	155
	Money and the Japanese	177
	The Showa Economic Experience	191
	Regional Japan: The Price of Prosperity and the Benefits of Dependency	209
	My-Car-isma: Motorizing the Showa Self	229
	The Intellectual Community of the Showa Era	245
	High Culture in the Showa Period	265
	How They Have Looked to Us	279
	Index	299