1967 Signed Japan’s Decision for War Nobutaka Ike WWII Pearl Harbor 1st Ed
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World War II / Japanese military and political history. An exceptionally important documentary account revealing how Japan’s highest government and military leaders debated policy, negotiated strategy, and ultimately moved toward war with the United States and the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Japan’s Decision for War: Records of the 1941 Policy Conferences, translated, edited, and introduced by Nobutaka Ike. First edition published by Stanford University Press in 1967.
This copy is personally signed and inscribed by Nobutaka Ike and dated “Stanford, July 1967,” immediately following the book’s June 1967 publication. The inscription closes with Ike’s familiar signature, “Nobu Ike,” making this a desirable publication-year presentation copy.
Ike was a Japanese-American political scientist, Stanford professor, and leading authority on Japanese politics. After being forcibly relocated following Pearl Harbor, he was released to assist the United States Navy with Japanese-language translation work during World War II. His unusual personal history gives this signed study of Japan’s road to war exceptional historical resonance.
The book presents records from 62 Japanese policy conferences held between March and December 1941, providing direct access to the deliberations of Japan’s political and military leadership as the nation prepared for conflict. These primary-source records illuminate Japan’s relationship with Germany and Italy, negotiations with the United States, economic pressure and embargoes, military planning, and the decisions that culminated in the Pacific War.
Hardcover contains xxx preliminary pages plus 306 numbered pages, with a bibliographical note, appendix, and index.
Original black cloth hardcover remains clean, solid, and well preserved. Interior pages are clean and the binding is firm. The original illustrated dust jacket is present and unclipped, retaining its original $8.50 price. Jacket shows visible age and handling wear, including rubbing, edge creasing, several tears, small chips, and heavier wear around the upper edges and spine ends. A previous owner’s inscription is present on the front endpaper as shown.
Please examine every photograph carefully for the exact condition and inscription. A scarce signed, publication-year copy of a major documentary work on Japan’s internal decision-making before Pearl Harbor.
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1967 Signed Japan’s Decision for War Nobutaka Ike WWII Pearl Harbor 1st Ed
$600.00
Japan’s Decision for War: Records of the 1941 Policy Conferences, translated, edited, and introduced by Nobutaka Ike. First edition published by Stanford University Press in 1967.
This copy is personally signed and inscribed by Nobutaka Ike and dated “Stanford, July 1967,” immediately following the book’s June 1967 publication. The inscription closes with Ike’s familiar signature, “Nobu Ike,” making this a desirable publication-year presentation copy.
Ike was a Japanese-American political scientist, Stanford professor, and leading authority on Japanese politics. After being forcibly relocated following Pearl Harbor, he was released to assist the United States Navy with Japanese-language translation work during World War II. His unusual personal history gives this signed study of Japan’s road to war exceptional historical resonance.
The book presents records from 62 Japanese policy conferences held between March and December 1941, providing direct access to the deliberations of Japan’s political and military leadership as the nation prepared for conflict. These primary-source records illuminate Japan’s relationship with Germany and Italy, negotiations with the United States, economic pressure and embargoes, military planning, and the decisions that culminated in the Pacific War.
Hardcover contains xxx preliminary pages plus 306 numbered pages, with a bibliographical note, appendix, and index.
Original black cloth hardcover remains clean, solid, and well preserved. Interior pages are clean and the binding is firm. The original illustrated dust jacket is present and unclipped, retaining its original $8.50 price. Jacket shows visible age and handling wear, including rubbing, edge creasing, several tears, small chips, and heavier wear around the upper edges and spine ends. A previous owner’s inscription is present on the front endpaper as shown.
Please examine every photograph carefully for the exact condition and inscription. A scarce signed, publication-year copy of a major documentary work on Japan’s internal decision-making before Pearl Harbor.
SKU V/2