Japan At The Crossroads
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Author |
: Nick Kapur |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 236 |
Release |
: 2018-08-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674988484 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674988485 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Japan at the Crossroads by : Nick Kapur
In spring of 1960, Japan’s government passed Anpo, a revision of the postwar treaty that allows the United States to maintain a military presence in Japan. This move triggered the largest popular backlash in the nation’s modern history. These protests, Nick Kapur argues in Japan at the Crossroads, changed the evolution of Japan’s politics and culture, along with its global role. The yearlong protests of 1960 reached a climax in June, when thousands of activists stormed Japan’s National Legislature, precipitating a battle with police and yakuza thugs. Hundreds were injured and a young woman was killed. With the nation’s cohesion at stake, the Japanese government acted quickly to quell tensions and limit the recurrence of violent demonstrations. A visit by President Eisenhower was canceled and the Japanese prime minister resigned. But the rupture had long-lasting consequences that went far beyond politics and diplomacy. Kapur traces the currents of reaction and revolution that propelled Japanese democracy, labor relations, social movements, the arts, and literature in complex, often contradictory directions. His analysis helps resolve Japan’s essential paradox as a nation that is both innovative and regressive, flexible and resistant, wildly imaginative yet simultaneously wedded to tradition. As Kapur makes clear, the rest of the world cannot understand contemporary Japan and the distinct impression it has made on global politics, economics, and culture without appreciating the critical role of the “revolutionless” revolution of 1960—turbulent events that released long-buried liberal tensions while bolstering Japan’s conservative status quo.
Author |
: Lori Watt |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 2020-03-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781684174904 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1684174902 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis When Empire Comes Home by : Lori Watt
"Following the end of World War II in Asia, the Allied powers repatriated over six million Japanese nationals from colonies and battlefields throughout Asia and deported more than a million colonial subjects from Japan to their countries of origin.Depicted at the time as a postwar measure related to the demobilization of defeated Japanese soldiers, this population transfer was a central element in the human dismantling of the Japanese empire that resonates with other post-colonial and post-imperial migrations in the twentieth century.Lori Watt analyzes how the human remnants of empire, those who were moved and those who were left behind, served as sites of negotiation in the process of the jettisoning of the colonial project and in the creation of new national identities in Japan. Through an exploration of the creation and uses of the figure of the repatriate, in political, social, and cultural realms, this study addresses the question of what happens when empire comes home."
Author |
: Yutaka Kawashima |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 176 |
Release |
: 2003-10-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780815796152 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0815796153 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Japanese Foreign Policy at the Crossroads by : Yutaka Kawashima
The post–World War II paradigm that ensured security and prosperity for the Japanese people has lost much of its effectiveness. The current generation has become increasingly resentful of the prolonged economic stagnation and feels a sense of drift and uncertainty about the future of Japan's foreign policy. In J apanese Foreign Policy at the Crossroads, Yutaka Kawashima clarifies some of the defining parameters of Japan's past foreign policy and examines the challenges it currently faces, including the quagmire on the Korean Peninsula, the future of the U.S.-Japan alliance, the management of Japan-China relations, and Japan's relation with Southeast Asia. Kawashima—who, as vice minister of foreign affairs, was Japan's highest-ranking foreign service official—cautions Japan against attempts to ensure its own security and well-being outside of an international framework. He believes it is crucial that Japan work with as many like-minded countries as possible to construct a regional and international order based on shared interests and shared values. In an era of globalization, he cautions, such efforts will be crucial to maintaining global world order and ensuring civilized interaction among all states.
Author |
: Kenneth B. Pyle |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 259 |
Release |
: 2018-10-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674989085 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674989082 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Japan in the American Century by : Kenneth B. Pyle
No nation was more deeply affected by America’s rise to world power than Japan. President Franklin Roosevelt’s uncompromising policy of unconditional surrender led to the catastrophic finale of the Asia-Pacific War and the most intrusive international reconstruction of another nation in modern history. Japan in the American Century examines how Japan, with its deeply conservative heritage, responded to the imposition of a new liberal order. The price Japan paid to end the occupation was a cold war alliance with the United States that ensured America’s dominance in the region. Still traumatized by its wartime experience, Japan developed a grand strategy of dependence on U.S. security guarantees so that the nation could concentrate on economic growth. Yet from the start, despite American expectations, Japan reworked the American reforms to fit its own circumstances and cultural preferences, fashioning distinctively Japanese variations on capitalism, democracy, and social institutions. Today, with the postwar world order in retreat, Japan is undergoing a sea change in its foreign policy, returning to an activist, independent role in global politics not seen since 1945. Distilling a lifetime of work on Japan and the United States, Kenneth Pyle offers a thoughtful history of the two nations’ relationship at a time when the character of that alliance is changing. Japan has begun to pull free from the constraints established after World War II, with repercussions for its relations with the United States and its role in Asian geopolitics.
Author |
: Yoshihisa Tak Matsusaka |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 550 |
Release |
: 2020-03-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781684173501 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1684173507 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904–1932 by : Yoshihisa Tak Matsusaka
"In this history of Japanese involvement in northeast China, the author argues that Japan’s military seizure of Manchuria in September 1931 was founded on three decades of infiltration of the area. This incremental empire-building and its effect on Japan are the focuses of this book. The principal agency in the piecemeal growth of Japanese colonization was the South Manchurian Railway Company, and by the mid-1920s Japan had a deeply entrenched presence in Manchuria and exercised a dominant economic and political influence over the area. Japanese colonial expansion in Manchuria also loomed large in Japanese politics, military policy, economic development, and foreign relations and deeply influenced many aspects of Japan’s interwar history."
Author |
: Michael Lewis |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 371 |
Release |
: 2020-03-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781684173426 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1684173426 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Becoming Apart by : Michael Lewis
Focusing on the marginal region of Toyama, on the Sea of Japan, the author explores the interplay of central and regional authorities, local and national perceptions of rights, and the emerging political practices in Toyama and Tokyo that became part of the new political culture that took shape in Japan following the Meiji Restoration. Lewis argues that in response to the demands of the centralizing state, local elites and leaders in Toyama developed a repertoire of supple responses that varied with the political or economic issue at stake.
Author |
: Emer O'Dwyer |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 540 |
Release |
: 2020-05-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781684175529 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1684175526 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Significant Soil by : Emer O'Dwyer
"Like all empires, Japan’s prewar empire encompassed diverse territories as well as a variety of political forms for governing such spaces. This book focuses on Japan’s Kwantung Leasehold and Railway Zone in China’s three northeastern provinces. The hybrid nature of the leasehold’s political status vis-à-vis the metropole, the presence of the semipublic and enormously powerful South Manchuria Railway Company, and the region’s vulnerability to inter-imperial rivalries, intra-imperial competition, and Chinese nationalism throughout the first decades of the twentieth century combined to give rise to a distinctive type of settler politics. Settlers sought inclusion within a broad Japanese imperial sphere while successfully utilizing the continental space as a site for political and social innovation.In this study, Emer O’Dwyer traces the history of Japan’s prewar Manchurian empire over four decades, mapping how South Manchuria—and especially its principal city, Dairen—was naturalized as a Japanese space and revealing how this process ultimately contributed to the success of the Japanese army’s early 1930s takeover of Manchuria. Simultaneously, Significant Soil demonstrates the conditional nature of popular support for Kwantung Army state-building in Manchukuo, highlighting the settlers’ determination that the Kwantung Leasehold and Railway Zone remain separate from the project of total empire."
Author |
: Carol Richmond Tsang |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 334 |
Release |
: 2020-03-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781684174577 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1684174570 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis War and Faith by : Carol Richmond Tsang
"During the sengoku era--the period of ""warring provinces"" in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Japan--warlords vied for supremacy and sought to expand their influence over the realm. Powerful religious institutions also asserted their military might by calling upon their adherents to do battle against forces that threatened their spiritual and secular interests.The Honganji branch of Jodo Shinshu (True Pure Land Sect) Buddhism was one such powerhouse that exercised its military will by fanning violent uprisings of ikko ikki, loosely structured ""leagues of one mind"" made up of mostly commoners who banded together to fight for (or against) any number of causes--usually those advanced by the Honganji’s Patriarch.Carol Richmond Tsang delves into the complex and often contradictory relationship between these ikko leagues and the Honganji institution. Moving beyond the simplistic characterization of ikki as peasant uprisings, the author argues cogently for a fuller picture of ikko ikki as a force in medieval Japanese history. By exploring the political motivations and machinations of the Honganji and the diverse aims and allegiances of its ikko followers, Tsang complicates our understanding of ikko ikki as a multifaceted example of how religion and religious belief played out in a society in conflict."
Author |
: Kate T. Williamson |
Publisher |
: Princeton Architectural Press |
Total Pages |
: 198 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1568985401 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781568985404 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Year in Japan by : Kate T. Williamson
New York City-based writer and illustrator Williamson shares discoveries about Japan and its culture based on a recent year spent in Kyoto as a postgraduate student. The text combines the author's colorful illustrations with brief descriptions presented in a script-style text. The end result is a charming, journal-like publication in which Williams
Author |
: Henry DeWitt Smith (II) |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 380 |
Release |
: 1972 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0674471857 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674471856 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Japan's First Student Radicals by : Henry DeWitt Smith (II)
Long obscured by the more dramatic activities of post-World War II student activists, the history of the Japanese left-wing student movement during its formative period from 1918 until its suppression in the 1930s is analyzed here in detail for the first time. Focusing on the Shinjinkai (New Man Society) of Tokyo Imperial University, the leading prewar student group, Henry DeWitt Smith describes the origins and evolution of student radicalism in the period between the two World Wars. He concludes with an analysis of the careers of the Shinjinkai members after graduation and with an explanation of the importance of the prewar tradition to the postwar student movement.