Japan Examined: Perspectives on Modern Japanese History

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Japan Examined

Perspectives on Modern Japanese History

Edited by: Harry Wray and Hilary Conroy

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1983

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

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History Regional and National History Asia-Pacific

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
INTRODUCTION Harry Wray and Hilary Conroy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
I. WHEN DOES MODERN JAPAN BEGIN?
Introduction Mikiso Hane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	5
The Problem: When Did Modern Japanese History Begin? John W. Hall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	9
Meiji 1-10: Takeoff Time for Modern Japan James L. Huffman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	18
Agrarian Japan and Modernization Mikiso Hane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	26
Japan's Modern Economic Growth: Capitalist Development Under Absolutism Koji Taira Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	34
II. HAVE "MODERN" AND "MODERNIZATION" BEEN OVERWORKED?
Introduction Hilary Conroy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	43
Beyond Modernization: Society, Culture, and the Underside of Japanese History Thomas R. H. Havens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	45
Beyond Modern Ardath W. Burks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	48
III. THE MEIJI RESTORATION: PRODUCT OF GRADUAL DECAY, ABRUPT CRISIS, OR CREATIVE WILL?
Introduction Conrad Tofman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	55
The Meiji Restoration Harold Bolitho Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	59
The Choshu Activists and 1868 Thomas M. Huber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	66
The Meiji Restoration: From Obsolete Order to Effective Regime Conrad Totman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	72
IV. THE MEIJI GOVERNMENT AND ITS CRITICS: WHAT IS BEST FOR THE NATION?
Introduction Jerry K. Fisher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	79
Prosperous Nation Jerry K. Fisher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	83
The Movement for Liberty and Popular Rights Mikiso Hane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	90
The Popular Rights Debate: Political or Ideological? James L. Huffman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	98
The Meiji Leadership: Matsukata Masayoshi Jackson H. Bailey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	104
Tanaka Shozo: Champion of Local Autonomy Victor Carpenter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	112
V. MEIJI IMPERIALISM: PLANNED OR UNPLANNED?
Introduction Bonnie B. Oh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	121
Meiji Imperialism: "Phenomenally Rapid" Bonnie B. Oh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	125
Meiji Imperialism: "Not Based on Preordained Design" Ann M. Harrington Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	131
Meiji Imperialism: "Mostly Ad Woe" Hilary Conroy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	136
Meiji Imperialism: Pacific Emigration or Continental Expansionism Shumpei Okamoto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	141
VI. THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR: TURNING POINT IN JAPANESE HISTORY?
Introduction Harry Wray Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	149
The Takeoff Point of Japanese Imperialism Peter Duus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	153
The Late Meiji Debate over Social Policy Byron K. Marshall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	158
External and Internal Problems After the War Banno Junji Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	163
VII. HOW DEMOCRATIC WAS TAISHO DEMOCRACY?
Introduction Harry Wray Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	171
The Patterns of Taisho Democracy Stephen S. Large Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	175
Political Parties and Nonissues in Taisho Democracy David A. Titus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	181
The Nonliberal Roots of Taisho Democracy Henry D. Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	191
VIII. JAPANESE COLONIALISM: ENLIGHTENED OR BARBARIC?
Introduction E. Patricia Tsurumi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	199
Japanese Colonialism: An Overview Edward I-te Chen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	201
Japanese Colonialism: Discarding the Stereotypes Mark K. Peattie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	208
Colonizer and Colonized in Taiwan E. Patricia Tsurumi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	214
Japanese Colonialism in Korea Han-Kyo Kim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	222
Pan-Asianism in Action and Reaction David G. Egler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	229
IX. THE 1930s: ABERRATION OR LOGICAL OUTCOME?
Introduction/ George O. Totten Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	237
The 1930s: A Logical Outcome of Meiji Policy Kisaka Junichiro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	241
Detour Through a Dark Valley Robert M. Spaulding Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	252
Japan's Political Parties in Democracy, Fascism, and War George O. Totten Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	258
A Social Origin of the Second World War Richard J. Smethurst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	269
The Lesson of the Textbooks Harry Wray Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	282
X. JAPAN'S FOREIGN POLICY IN THE 1930s: SEARCH FOR AUTONOMY OR NAKED AGGRESSION?
Introduction Hilary Conroy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	291
Japan's Drive to Autarky Michael A. Barnhart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	293
The Great Divorce: Japan and Universalism Between the World Wars Thomas W. Burkman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	301
From Mukden to Pearl Harbor Hata Ikuhiko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	308
Fogbound in Tokyo: Domestic Politics in Japan's Foreign Policymaking Mark C. Michelson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	316
Japan and "Asia for Asians" Akashi Yoji Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	323
XI. THE ALLIED OCCUPATION: HOW SIGNIFICANT WAS IT?
Introduction Richard H. Minear Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	331
The Allied Occupation: Catalyst Not Creator Edwin O. Retschauer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	335
Reform and Reconsolidation//. W. Dower 343 A Question of Paternity J. W. Dower Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	343
A Question of Paternity Sodei Kinjiro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	352
Some Questions and Answers Takemae Eiji Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	357
XII. JAPAN: EAST OR WEST?
Introduction Hilary Conroy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	365
Not Westernization But Modernization Edwin O. Keischauer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	369
A Combination of East and West Charles B. Fahs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	376
Neither East nor West But All Alone Miwa Kimitada Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	384
SUGGESTED READINGS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	391
THE CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	401

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