Ultranationalism in German-Japanese Relations: 1930-45 from Wenneker to Sasakawa

Chapman (senior research fellow, Scottish Centre of War Studies, U. of Glasgow, Scotland) provides a new study of the ultranationalist regimes of Japan and Germany in the 1930s and 1040s and the parts played by many of the principals involved in their initiatives for global control. Set in a biographical format, the book includes entries for Nazi party enforcer and East Asia Gestapo representative Josef Albert Meisinger, and commander of German naval forces in the South Pacific, Admiral Paul Werner Wenneker. Entries for the Japanese side include new documentation used to examine the affect on domestic events during the Tenno fascism era of right-wing business and political personality Sasagawa Ryoichi, and the role of the leader of Japanese military intelligence in Eastern Europe, General Onodera Makoto. Numerous photographs and illustrations are included. Global Oriental is an imprint of Brill. Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)