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La population japonaise a donc  t  mobilis e pour ce projet d s 1937, quand les arm es nippones entreprirent la conqu te des grandes villes chinoises: P kin, Shanghai, Nankin. Aux yeux du gouvernement militariste, les Japonais devait marcher d'un seul pas, li s par la m me d votion   l'empereur. \u003cbr\u003eMichael Lucken revient sur ce mythe d'une unanimit  dans la guerre, montrant les sentiments contradictoires qui ont agit  la soci t . V ritable histoire culturelle et mat rielle d'un pays plong  dans le gouffre d'un conflit meurtrier, il d crit les principales  tapes de la guerre et ses manifestations dans les esprits et sur le territoire. 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Les peintres japonais   l' preuve de la guerre (2005), Le Japon apr s la guerre (2007) et 1945 Hiroshima: les images sources (2008).","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52760471077137,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52760471535889,"sku":"NIN9782213661414","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9782213661414.jpg?v=1785787668"},{"product_id":"japan-and-ancient-greece-book-michael-lucken-9781009528696","title":"Japan and Ancient Greece","description":"Japan and ancient Greece. Placed side by side, these two concepts give the impression of something very strange, a sort of chimera - half Apollo, half samurai; half Venus, half geisha - set on a ground that is at once white and blue like the Cyclades, dark green and vermillion like Shintō shrines.  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