Evaluating Evidence: A Positivist Approach to Reading Sources on Modern Japan

Contents

Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Japan’s Postwar Positivists The IHKM and YAKM Projects 9 2. Reading Primary Documents Letters, Ikensho, Nikki, and Memoirs—the Pitfalls 30 3. Hara Kei Nikki and Eiin Hara Kei Nikki Compared Typos and Other Problems 53 4. Now That We Have These Primary Sources 65 5. John W. Dower and Herbert P. Bix 125 Concluding Remarks 164 Notes 169 Glossary 227 Bibliography 233 Index 257 ...