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Author : David Anson Titus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Palace and Politics in Prewar Japan written by David Anson Titus and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ian Gow
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135795924
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)
Download or read book Military Intervention in Pre-War Japanese Politics written by Ian Gow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the impact of inter-war naval arms control policy-making on the domestic politics of Japan, especially the areas of civil-military, inter-military (Army/Navy) and especially intra-military (Navy) relations and on the professional and political career of one leading naval figure, Admiral Kato Kanji (1873-1939). In this re-appraisal of Kato's career, the author challenges the conventional and negative interpretation of both Kato's role in the naval politics and factions within the Imperial Navy, utilizing Kato's involvement in the domestic political debate as a focal device for studying two key areas of Japanese civil-military relations: civilian control and the phenomenon of massive, overt naval intervention in domestic politics.
Author : Peter von Staden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134150474
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Business-Government Relations in Prewar Japan written by Peter von Staden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-08-07 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a much needed exploration on the relationship between government and business in pre-war Japan, making an important contribution to the literature by considering periods which have often been neglected by scholars.
Author : Ben-Ami Shillony
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198202608
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Politics and Culture in Wartime Japan written by Ben-Ami Shillony and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This analysis of the politics and culture of Japan during the period of World War II argues that the wartime regime, repressive as it was, was very different from contemporary totalitarian states.
Author : Kenneth J. Ruoff
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684176166
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book Japan's Imperial House in the Postwar Era, 1945-2019 written by Kenneth J. Ruoff and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With the ascension of a new emperor and the dawn of the Reiwa Era, Kenneth J. Ruoff has expanded upon and updated The People’s Emperor, his study of the monarchy’s role as a political, societal, and cultural institution in contemporary Japan. Many Japanese continue to define the nation’s identity through the imperial house, making it a window into Japan’s postwar history. Ruoff begins by examining the reform of the monarchy during the U.S. occupation and then turns to its evolution since the Japanese regained the power to shape it. To understand the monarchy’s function in contemporary Japan, the author analyzes issues such as the role of individual emperors in shaping the institution, the intersection of the monarchy with politics, the emperor’s and the nation’s responsibility for the war, nationalistic movements in support of the monarchy, and the remaking of the once-sacrosanct throne into a “people’s imperial house” embedded in the postwar culture of democracy. Finally, Ruoff examines recent developments, including the abdication of Emperor Akihito and the heir crisis, which have brought to the forefront the fragility of the imperial line under the current legal system, leading to calls for reform."
Author : Brian Daizen Victoria
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538131676
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Zen Terror in Prewar Japan written by Brian Daizen Victoria and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a Zen priest, this book explodes the myth of Zen Buddhism as a peaceful religion. Can Buddhism, widely regarded as a religion of peace, also contribute to acts of terrorism? Through an insider’s view of right-wing ultranationalism in prewar Japan, this powerful book follows a band of Zen Buddhist–trained adherents who ardently believed so. Brian Victoria, himself a Zen priest, tells the story of a group of terrorists who were responsible for the assassination of three leading political and economic figures in 1932. Victoria provides a detailed introduction to the religious as well as political significance of the group’s terrorist beliefs and acts, focusing especially on the life and times of the band’s leader, Inoue Nisshō. A deeply troubled youth, Inoue became a spy in Manchuria for the Japanese Army in 1909, where he encountered Zen for the first time. When he returned to Japan in 1921, he determined to resolve his deep spiritual discontent through meditation practice, which culminated in an enlightenment experience that resolved his long-term doubts.After engaging in “post-enlightenment training” under the guidance of Rinzai Zen master Yamamoto Gempō, Inoue began a program of training the “patriotic youth” who formed the nucleus of his terrorist band. After the assassinations, Inoue and his band were sentenced to life imprisonment, only to be released just a few years later in 1940. Almost unbelievably, Inoue then became the live-in confidant of Prime Minister Konoe Fumimaro, a position he held through the end of WWII. In the postwar era, Inoue reinvented himself again as the founder and head of yet another band of ultranationalists known as the “National Protection Corps.” His eventful life came to an end in 1967. Victoria concludes with an assessment of the profound impact of the assassinations, which culminated in Japan’s transformation into a totalitarian state and set the stage for Pearl Harbor. The author also examines the connection of Buddhism to terrorism more broadly, considering the implications for today’s Islamic-related terrorism.
Author : Gregory J. Kasza
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520913795
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The State and the Mass Media in Japan, 1918-1945 written by Gregory J. Kasza and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregory Kasza examines state-society relations in interwar Japan through a case study of public policy toward radio, film, newspapers, and magazines.
Author : Gerald L. Curtis
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231066815
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (668 download)
Download or read book The Japanese Way of Politics written by Gerald L. Curtis and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- Yasuhiro Nakasone
Author : Leonard A. Humphreys
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804765359
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Way of the Heavenly Sword written by Leonard A. Humphreys and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1995-04-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines the history of the Japanese army in the 1920s. In this decade, the 'Meija military system' disintegrated and was replaced by a new 'Imperial Army System'. The Japanese victory over Russia in 1905 had changed the direction of Japanese military thought from almost total dependence on western rational military thinking to a more traditional reliance on morale as the preponderant factor for victory in combat. The author focuses on the intense and complex struggle which took place over leadership of the Army, the application of the principle of the primacy of morale, and the quite contradictory but obvious necessity for the army to modernize. This internal turmoil was intensified by a background of increasingly difficult economic circumstances, and the terrible effects of the great earthquake and fire of 1923. This crucial decade of Japanese history set the stage for the shattering events of the 1930s and 1940s.
Author : G.L. Curtis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315484919
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Japan's Foreign Policy After the Cold War written by G.L. Curtis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A documentation of the impact of recent changes in the international system of Japan's foreign policy. Chapters include: diplomatic style; the thrust for economic success; the search for security; and the impact of international relations with neighbouring countries.
Author : Lesley Connors
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136900241
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)
Download or read book The Emperor's Adviser written by Lesley Connors and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-10-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saionji Kinmochi was an aristocrat, a scholar and a progressive liberal politician who twice occupied the highest political office in the nation and who, during three decades, as adviser to three Emperors, coordinated and directed Japanese politics. His long life encompassed the emergence of the modern Japanese state, the establishment of the constitution, the integration of Japan into the inter-war, international community and the creation, and subsequent erosion of the democratic process. The story of his twilight years chronicles the conflicts between the goals of liberalism and internationalism which dominated Japanese politics in the 1920s and the right-wing militarism which held sway in the years leading to the Pacific War. He was a central figure in the turbulent, formative period of Japan’s political ideology.
Author : Lawrence W. Beer
Publisher : Global Oriental
ISBN 13 : 9004213031
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Human Rights Constitutionalism in Japan and Asia written by Lawrence W. Beer and published by Global Oriental. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Less noticed in the West than wars, terrorism and economic trends has been the historic development since World War II of constitutional government and law in Asia. Lawrence W. Beer has been a close observer of Asian linkages among law, politics, culture, and national security issues for over fifty years. His perspectives have been refined during long residence in Asia, especially Japan, by substantial friendly interactions with Asian legal scholars, judges and attorneys involved in the world of human rights constitutional law. This volume, which will be widely welcomed by students and researchers, brings together a selection of Beer’s many works previously published in diverse venue, but no longer easily accessible. The collection opens with a review of constitutionalism in Asia and the United States and concludes with a recent examination of Japan’s rejection of war: ‘Japan’s Constitutional Discourse and Performance’. By way of Afterword, the author offers an in-depth review of ‘Globalization of Human Rights in the 21st Century’.
Author : William D. Wray
Publisher : Harvard Univ Asia Center
ISBN 13 : 9780674576650
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Mitsubishi and the N.Y.K., 1870-1914 written by William D. Wray and published by Harvard Univ Asia Center. This book was released on 1984 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ben-Ami Shillony
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047442253
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book The Emperors of Modern Japan written by Ben-Ami Shillony and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-10-15 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Japanese emperors, a peculiar and unique phenomenon in modern times, are the subject of this important handbook edited by Ben-Ami Shillony. An international team of leading scholars looks at these emperors - Meiji (Mutsuhito), Taishō (Yoshihito), Shōwa (Hirohito), and the present emperor Akihito – both as personalities, and as a constantly developing institution. It becomes clear that both the personalities, and the periods in which they reign(ed) have shaped Japanese monarchy, and our image of it. The essays thoroughly deal with topics such as the ideology behind the institution, the roles of the emperors and their wives, their visual representation, their links to Christianity, the antagonism they called forth in right-wing circles, Hirohito’s much-debated war responsibility, and the controversy over amending the succession rules.
Author : John E. Moser
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469672332
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Japan, 1941 written by John E. Moser and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Japan during the early years of World War II, this game helps students understand the political and strategic reasons behind Japan's decision to enter the war. Taking on the roles of leading figures in Tokyo—army or navy officers, bureaucrats, and members of the Imperial Court—students are thrust into the middle of Japan's strategic dilemma. Drawing on important works from Japan's past, players must advise the emperor on how to proceed. Will they call for a "strike south" to seize the natural resources of Southeast Asia—even at the risk of war with Great Britain and the United States? Or will they seek an understanding with those nations&8213;even if it means giving up the ideal of a Pan-Asian partnership?
Author : Rudolf V. A. Janssens
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789051838855
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (388 download)
Download or read book "What Future for Japan?" written by Rudolf V. A. Janssens and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1995 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within a few months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States government began to plan a policy for a defeated Japan. In order to avoid any future attacks on the United States, Japanese society had to be changed. Politicians, Japan specialists, historians, political scientists, and anthropologists debated the future of Japan. Topics ranged from the future role of the Emperor and politics, to Japanese economy, to re-education of the Japanese people. Eventually an overall policy for postwar Japan was formulated, which was to a high degree executed by General Douglas MacArthur during the Occupation of Japan. This study is based on research in the records of the government policy planners, both private papers and official records. It is the first book-length study of the American planning for the occupation of Japan, including the drafting of policy, not only in the State Department but also in the War Department, Office of Strategic Services, and the Office of War Information. The analysis focuses on the development of strategies for remodeling postwar Japan as well as on the meaning of Japan constructed by various planners and decision makers and the impact of their constructions on American Occupation policy.
Author : James Reardon-Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317462408
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Pollution, Politics and Foreign Investment in Taiwan written by James Reardon-Anderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lukang is a sleepy provincial town on the east coast of Taiwan. The Lukang "rebellion" was a series of well-organised mass demonstrations in 1986 and 1987 to block construction by the DuPont Corporation of a titanium dioxide plant nearby. If this protest had occurred just a few years earlier, no doubt it would have been crushed by a powerful government determined to promote development at any cost. If it had been a few years later, it probably would have passed unnoticed. But it came at a time just when environmental consciousness in Taiwan had reached a critical mass and as the government was introducing political reforms allowing unprecendented scope to new forms of civil action. In this atmosphere, a handful of determined, capable activists, bent on keeping a giant multinational corporation out of their "old home", focused the attention of the entire island on Lukang, raised the national consciousness about threats to the natural environment, and challenged the rules that government officials and industrial leaders in Taiwan had come to take for granted. The Lukang rebellion was one of those small events with large consequences that make for interesting and significant history.
