Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. FOREWORD vii
4. CHAPTER I. Introduction: Choice and Consequence 1
5. PART ONE. Political and Military
6. CHAPTER II. The Bureaucracy as a Political Force, 1920-45 33
7. CHAPTER III. Retrogression in Japan's Foreign Policy Decision-Making Process 81
8. CHAPTER IV. The Failure of Military Expansionism 107
9. CHAPTER V. The Radical Left and the Failure of Communism 139
10. PART TWO. Economic and Social
11. CHAPTER VI. Rural Origins of Japanese Fascism 181
12. CHAPTER VII. The Economic Muddle of the 1920’s 211
13. CHAPTER VIII. Big Business and Politics in Prewar Japan 267
14. PART THREE. Intellectual
15. CHAPTER IX. Intellectuals as Visionaries of the New Asian Order 319
16. CHAPTER X. Nakano Seigo and the Spirit of the Meiji Restoration in Twentieth-Century Japan 375
17. CHAPTER XI. Ōyama Ikuo and the Search for Democracy 423
18. PART FOUR. Comparisons and Conclusions
19. CHAPTER XII. Japan and Germany in the Interwar Period 461
20. CHAPTER XIII. What Went Wrong? 489
21. CONTRIBUTORS 511
22. INDEX 515