@book{fa6cd75c56aa4f9a89e4419b8187267b,
title = "Post-war Japan as a Seapower: Imperial Legacy, Wartime Experience, and the Making of a Navy",
abstract = "In Post-war Japan as a Sea Power, Alessio Patalano incorporates new, exclusive source material to develop an innovative approach to the study of post-war Japan as a military power. This archival-based history of Asia's most advanced navy, the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF), looks beyond the traditional perspective of viewing the modern Japanese military in light of the country's alliance with the US. The book places the institution in a historical context, analysing its imperial legacy and the role of Japan's shattering defeat in WWII in the post-war emergence of Japan as East Asia's 'sea power'.",
keywords = "Japan, Sea-power, Navies, Japan Kaigun, Naval history, Military history, Naval art and science, Second World War, Asia, Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force",
author = "Alessio Patalano",
year = "2015",
month = apr,
day = "23",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781350011083",
series = "Bloomsbury Studies in Military History",
publisher = "Bloomsbury Academic",
}