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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Bailey, Jackson H.,; Barnhart, Michael A.,; Bolitho, Harold,; Burkman, Thomas W.,; Burks, Ardath W.,; Carpenter, Victor,; Chen, Edward I-te,; Conroy, Hilary,; Dower, J. W.,; Duus, Peter,; Egler, David G.,; Eiji, Takemae,; Fahs, Charles B.,; Fisher, Jerry K.,; Hall, John W.,; Hane, Mikiso,; Harrington, Ann M.,; Havens, Thomas R. H.,; Huber, Thomas M.,; Huffman, James L.,; Ikuhiko, Hata,; Junichiro, Kisaka,; Junji, Banno,; Keischauer, Edwin O.,; Kim, Han-Kyo,; Kimitada, Miwa,; Kinjiro, Sodei,; Large, Stephen S.,; Marshall, Byron K.,; Michelson, Mark C.,; Minear, Richard H.,; Oh, Bonnie B.,; Okamoto, Shumpei,; Peattie, Mark K.,; Retschauer, Edwin O.,; Smethurst, Richard J.,; Smith, Henry D.,; Spaulding, Robert M.,; Taira, Koji,; Titus, David A.,; Tofman, Conrad,; Totman, Conrad,; Totten, George O.,; Tsurumi, E. Patricia,; Wray, Harry,; Yoji, Akashi,
• HerausgeberIn: Conroy, Hilary,; Wray, Harry,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2022]; ©1983
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (424 p.)

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

Table of 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