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