TY - BOOK AU - Bailey,Jackson H. AU - Barnhart,Michael A. AU - Bolitho,Harold AU - Burkman,Thomas W. AU - Burks,Ardath W. AU - Carpenter,Victor AU - Chen,Edward I-te AU - Conroy,Hilary AU - Dower,J.W. AU - Duus,Peter AU - Egler,David G. AU - Eiji,Takemae AU - Fahs,Charles B. AU - Fisher,Jerry K. AU - Hall,John W. AU - Hane,Mikiso AU - Harrington,Ann M. AU - Havens,Thomas R.H. AU - Huber,Thomas M. AU - Huffman,James L. AU - Ikuhiko,Hata AU - Junichiro,Kisaka AU - Junji,Banno AU - Keischauer,Edwin O. AU - Kim,Han-Kyo AU - Kimitada,Miwa AU - Kinjiro,Sodei AU - Large,Stephen S. AU - Marshall,Byron K. AU - Michelson,Mark C. AU - Minear,Richard H. AU - Oh,Bonnie B. AU - Okamoto,Shumpei AU - Peattie,Mark K. AU - Retschauer,Edwin O. AU - Smethurst,Richard J. AU - Smith,Henry D. AU - Spaulding,Robert M. AU - Taira,Koji AU - Titus,David A. AU - Tofman,Conrad AU - Totman,Conrad AU - Totten,George O. AU - Tsurumi,E.Patricia AU - Wray,Harry AU - Yoji,Akashi TI - Japan Examined: Perspectives on Modern Japanese History SN - 9780824844363 AV - DS881.9 .J29 1983eb U1 - 952.03 19 PY - 2022///] CY - Honolulu : PB - University of Hawaii Press, KW - HISTORY / Asia / Japan KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; I. WHEN DOES MODERN JAPAN BEGIN? --; Introduction --; The Problem: When Did Modern Japanese History Begin? --; Meiji 1-10: Takeoff Time for Modern Japan --; Agrarian Japan and Modernization --; Japan's Modern Economic Growth: Capitalist Development Under Absolutism --; II. HAVE "MODERN" AND "MODERNIZATION" BEEN OVERWORKED? --; Introduction --; Beyond Modernization: Society, Culture, and the Underside of Japanese History --; Beyond Modern --; III. THE MEIJI RESTORATION: PRODUCT OF GRADUAL DECAY, ABRUPT CRISIS, OR CREATIVE WILL? --; Introduction --; The Meiji Restoration --; The Choshu Activists and 1868 --; The Meiji Restoration: From Obsolete Order to Effective Regime --; IV. THE MEIJI GOVERNMENT AND ITS CRITICS: WHAT IS BEST FOR THE NATION? --; Introduction --; Prosperous Nation --; The Movement for Liberty and Popular Rights --; The Popular Rights Debate: Political or Ideological? --; The Meiji Leadership: Matsukata Masayoshi --; Tanaka Shozo: Champion of Local Autonomy --; V. MEIJI IMPERIALISM: PLANNED OR UNPLANNED? --; Introduction --; Meiji Imperialism: "Phenomenally Rapid" --; Meiji Imperialism: "Not Based on Preordained Design" --; Meiji Imperialism: "Mostly Ad Woe" --; Meiji Imperialism: Pacific Emigration or Continental Expansionism --; VI. THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR: TURNING POINT IN JAPANESE HISTORY? --; Introduction --; The Takeoff Point of Japanese Imperialism --; The Late Meiji Debate over Social Policy --; External and Internal Problems After the War --; VII. HOW DEMOCRATIC WAS TAISHO DEMOCRACY? --; Introduction --; The Patterns of Taisho Democracy --; Political Parties and Nonissues in Taisho Democracy --; The Nonliberal Roots of Taisho Democracy --; VIII. JAPANESE COLONIALISM: ENLIGHTENED OR BARBARIC? --; Introduction --; Japanese Colonialism: An Overview --; Japanese Colonialism: Discarding the Stereotypes --; Colonizer and Colonized in Taiwan --; Japanese Colonialism in Korea --; Pan-Asianism in Action and Reaction --; IX. THE 1930s: ABERRATION OR LOGICAL OUTCOME? --; Introduction/ --; The 1930s: A Logical Outcome of Meiji Policy --; Detour Through a Dark Valley --; Japan's Political Parties in Democracy, Fascism, and War --; A Social Origin of the Second World War --; The Lesson of the Textbooks --; X. JAPAN'S FOREIGN POLICY IN THE 1930s: SEARCH FOR AUTONOMY OR NAKED AGGRESSION? --; Introduction --; Japan's Drive to Autarky --; The Great Divorce: Japan and Universalism Between the World Wars --; From Mukden to Pearl Harbor --; Fogbound in Tokyo: Domestic Politics in Japan's Foreign Policymaking --; Japan and "Asia for Asians" --; XI. THE ALLIED OCCUPATION: HOW SIGNIFICANT WAS IT? --; Introduction --; The Allied Occupation: Catalyst Not Creator --; Reform and Reconsolidation//. W. Dower 343 A Question of Paternity --; A Question of Paternity --; Some Questions and Answers --; XII. JAPAN: EAST OR WEST? --; Introduction --; Not Westernization But Modernization --; A Combination of East and West --; Neither East nor West But All Alone --; SUGGESTED READINGS --; THE CONTRIBUTORS; restricted access N2 - A collection of 46 essays that trace the course of democracy in Japan from 1868 to 1952 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824844363 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824844363 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780824844363/original ER -