Akita, George.

Evaluating evidence a positivist approach to reading sources on modern Japan / [electronic resource] : George Akita. - Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2008. - xv, 267 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-256) and index.

Japan's postwar positivists: the IHKM and YAKM Projects -- Reading primary documents: letters, ikensho, nikki, and memoirs--the pitfalls -- Hara Kei nikki and Eiin Hara Kei nikki compared: typos and other problems -- Now that we have these primary sources -- John W. Dower and Herbert P. Bix.


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Japan--History--Historiography.--1868-


Electronic books.

DS881.95 / .A35 2008

952.04072