Wings for the rising sun a transnational history of Japanese aviation Jürgen P. Melzer

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Contents: Part I Early Japanese Aviation, 1877-1918 -- 1 Powerful Images and Grand Visions pages 11 -- Early Gas Balloons: Low Tech, High Risk pages 13 -- Japan's First Balloon Launch pages 14 -- Balloon Fever Grips Japan pages 17 -- Balloons in the Russo-Japanese War and a Technological Dead-End pages 19 -- Two Reports about Western Aviation pages 22 -- The Road to Japan's First Motorized Flight pages 24 -- 2 The French Decade pages 40 -- The Flying Baron Shigeno pages 41 -- The Qingdao Air War: Brief Encounters and a Lasting Myth pages 44 -- A Technocrat Shapes His Vision: Kusakari Shiro pages 50 -- Inoue Ikutaro: The Army Air Force's Mastermind pages 54 -- The French Aeronautical Mission to Japan pages 56 -- Reconsidering the Exclusive Devotion to French Aviation pages 64 -- Part II Germany and Japan's Army Aviation, 1918-37 -- 3 Japan's Army Aviation in the "Wake of World War I p. 69 -- Early German Influence, 1919-25 p. 71 -- The Army's Struggle over a New Air Doctrine p. 80 -- Squaring the Circle: Disarmament and Airpower Buildup p. 83 -- Visions of Internationalism and National Prestige: The "Visit Europe Flight" pages 86 -- 4 On the Way to Independent Aircraft Design pages 96 -- Industrialists, Engineers, and Teachers pages 97 -- German Airliners into Japanese Bombers: Junkers in Japan pages 114 -- The Army's New Aircraft and the Manchurian Crisis pages 125 -- Part III Britain, Germany, and Japan's Naval Aviation, 1912-37 -- 5 Navigating a Sea of Change pages 139 -- Japanese Observers in Britain during World War I pages 142 -- An Early Compromise: Ship-Based Floatplanes pages 144 -- A New Launching Technology pages 147 -- Redefining Naval Airpower: The Early Years of Carrier-Based Aircraft pages 149 -- The Arrival of the First British Aeronautical Engineers in Japan pages 151 -- The British Aviation Mission to Japan pages 154 -- Japan's Naval Aviation Taking the Lead pages 169 -- Toward an Autonomous Airpower: Large, All-Metal Flying Boats pages 170 -- The Next Generation of Japanese Aircraft Carriers pages 183 -- A Second Generation of Carrier Planes pages 186 -- A New Role for Carrier Aircraft: Preemptive Air Strikes pages 188 -- Britain's Waning Influence and a Fateful Legacy pages 191 -- Part IV Toward Pearl Harbor and Beyond, 1937-45 -- 7 US Know-How for Japanese Aircraft Makers pages 201 -- Late Japanese Interest in US Aviation pages 202 -- US Aviation Technology Comes to Japan pages 205 -- A Craving for US Machine Tools pages 213 -- Know Your Enemy: US Assessments of Japanese Airpower pages 219 -- Japanese Perceptions of the US Aviation Industry pages 231 -- 8 Jet and Rocket Technology for Japan's Decisive Battle pages 234 -- Early Japanese Experiments pages 236 -- German Technology to Japan pages 238 -- Japan's First Rocket Aircraft pages 241 -- One More Miracle Weapon: Jet Airplanes pages 248 -- The Maiden Flight of the Shusui pages 252 -- The Kikka's Maiden Flight pages 254 -- Suicidal Cherry Blossoms: The Oka Attack Aircraft pages 258 -- Technology Transfer: Causes, Conduits, and Consequences pages 265 -- The Media and the Public: Anxieties, Exhilaration, and Fervent Nationalism pages 268 -- International Relations: From Cooperation to Alienation and Conflict pages 269 -- Transwar Continuities and Postwar Disruptions: Japanese Aviation after 1945 pages 271
Summary: "This history of Japanese aviation connects the intense drama of flight with a global history of international cooperation, competition, and conflict. Details how Japanese strategists, diplomats, and industrialists skillfully exploited a series of major geopolitical changes to expand Japanese airpower and develop an autonomous domestic industry"-- Provided by publisher

Data Source: Smithsonian Libraries

Date: 2020; 1868-

author: Melzer, Jürgen P
Subject: Japan Rikugun; Japan Rikugun

Type: Books; History

Physical description: xxiv, 339 pages illustrations (some color), maps (some color) 24 cm

Place: Japan; Japon

Topic: Aeronautics--History; Airplanes--History; Avions--Histoire; Aeronautics; Airplanes; Diplomatic relations; Foreign relations; Relations extérieures

Record ID: siris_sil_1157936

Usage: CC0