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.)
• Other title: 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? --; 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? --; 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? --; 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? --; 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? --; 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? --; The Patterns of Taisho Democracy --; Political Parties and Nonissues in Taisho Democracy --; The Nonliberal Roots of Taisho Democracy --; 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 --; 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? --; 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? --; 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? --; Not Westernization But Modernization --; A Combination of East and West --; Neither East nor West But All Alone --; SUGGESTED READINGS --; THE CONTRIBUTORS
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780824844363; 9783110564150
• DOI: 10.1515/9780824844363
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Hilary Conroy, Harry Wray.

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