The Japanese Enemy; His Power and His Vulnerability
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. ix, [3], 107, [5] pages. Name of previous owner on fep. DJ has some wear, soiling, chips and tears. Hugh Byas was a British editor who became a leading expert on Japan between the first and second World Wars. The writings of Hugh Byas, journalist and japanologist, developed while he was editor of the Japan Advertiser and later as correspondent of the London Times and New York Times. His work in Japan between the World Wars, is a discourse on progressive sovereignty. Byas equated a sovereign state with one that possessed an organized government capable of modernizing the state and developing democratic institutions to empower public opinion. More