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Japan Examined : Perspectives on Modern Japanese History / ed. by Hilary Conroy, Harry Wray.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1983Description: 1 online resource (424 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780824844363
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 952.03 19
LOC classification:
  • DS881.9 .J29 1983eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: A collection of 46 essays that trace the course of democracy in Japan from 1868 to 1952.
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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

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A collection of 46 essays that trace the course of democracy in Japan from 1868 to 1952.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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