Curse on This Country: The Rebellious Army of Imperial Japan by Danny Orbach Kodansu In 1956 he was designated

In 1956 he was designated a Living National Treasure

Title: Images from the Floating World: The Japanese Print

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Curse on This Country: The Rebellious Army of Imperial Japan by Danny Orbach Kodansu In 1956 he was designatedA revisionist history of the Imperial Japanese Army that challenges the long held assumption of Japanese soldiers as models of blind obedience. Orbach demonstrates that the Japanese military had one of the most disobedient command cultures in the modern world: officers repeatedly staged coups, political assassinations, and unauthorized military operations in defiance of both government and general staff orders. Tracing this culture of insubordination