Japan examined : perspectives on modern Japanese history /
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| Imprint: | Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c1983. |
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| Description: | x, 411 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/510223 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Japanese Names
- Introduction
- Part I. When Does Modern Japan Begin?
- 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
- Part II. Have ""Modern"" and ""Modernization"" Been Overworked?
- Beyond Modernization: Society, Culture, and the Underside of Japanese History
- Beyond Modern
- Part III. The Meiji Restoration: product of Gradual Decay, Abrupt Crisis, or Creative Will?
- The Meiji Restoration
- The Ch&obar;sh&ubar; Activists and 1868
- The Meiji Restoration: From Obsolete Order to Effective Regime
- Part IV. The Meiji Government and Its Critics: What is Best for the Nation?
- The Meirokusha and the Building of a Strong and prosperous Nation
- The Movement for Liberty and popular Rights
- The popular Rights Debate: political or Ideological?
- The Meiji Leadership: Matsukata Masayoshi
- Tanaka Sh&obar;z&obar;: Champion of Local Autonomy
- Part V. Meiji Imperialism: planned or Unplanned?
- Meiji Imperialism: ""phenomenally Rapid""
- Meiji Imperialism: ""Not Based on preordained Design""
- Meiji Imperialism: ""Mostly Ad Hoc""
- Meiji Imperialism: pacific Emigration or Continental Expansionism?
- Part VI. The Russo-Japanese War: Turning point in Japanese History?
- The Takeoff point of Japanese Imperialism
- The Late Meiji Debate Over Social policy
- External and Internal problems After the War
- Part VII. How Democratic was Taish&obar; Democracy?
- The patterns of Taish&obar; Democracy
- political parties and Nonissues in Taish&obar; Democracy
- The Nonliberal Roots of Taish&obar; Democracy
- Part VIII. Japanese Colonialism: Enlightened or Barbaric?
- Japanese Colonialism: An Overview
- Japanese Colonialism: Discarding the Stereotypes
- Colonizer and Colonized in Taiwan
- Japanese Colonialism in Korea
- pan-Asianism in Action and Reaction
- Part IX. The 1930s: Aberration or Logical Outcome?
- 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
- Part X. Japan's Foreign policy in the 1930s: Search for Autonomy or Naked Aggression?
- 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""
- Part XI. The Allied Occupation: How Significant Was It?
- The Allied Occupation: Catalyst Not Creator
- Reform and Reconsolidation
- A Question of paternity
- Some Questions and Answers
- Part XII. Japan: East or West?
- Not Westernization but Modernization
- A Combination of East and West
- Neither East nor West but All Alone
- Suggested Readings
- The Contributors