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Ruffians, yakuza, nationalists : the violent politics of modern Japan, 1860-1960 / Eiko Maruko Siniawer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Siniawer, Eiko Maruko.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political violence--Japan--History.
- Political violence.
- Democracy--Japan--History.
- Democracy.
- History.
- Japan.
- Japan--Politics and government--1868-.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 270 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- Political Violence in Historiographical Perspective
- Violence, Violence Specialists, and Politics
- Violence and Democracy
- Approaches to Comparative History
- 1 Patriots and Gamblers: Violence and the Formation of the Meiji State 11
- Shishi: Assassins, Rebels, Patriots
- Shishi Legacies in the Early Meiji Period
- Bakuto: Outlaws, Robin Hoods, Local Leaders
- Bakuto and the Meiji Restoration
- Bakuto as Political Violence Specialists: The Freedom and People's Rights Movement
- 2 Violent Democracy: Ruffians and the Birth of Parliamentary Politics 42
- From Activist to Ruffian: Soshi in the 1880s
- Exporting Violence: Nationalist Tairiku Ronin across Borders
- Parliamentary Politics and the Professionalization of Soshi
- State Violence and the Second General Election
- 3 Institutionalized Ruffianism and a Culture of Political Violence 74
- The Jiyuto Ingaidan and Its Bosses
- The Seiyukai Ingaidan in Party Politics
- Cultures of Violence: Yakuza Bosses in Diet Politics
- 4 Fascist Violence: Ideology and Power in Prewar Japan 108
- Fascist Ideologies
- Fascist Violence
- The Nationalist Nexus in the Metropole and Beyond
- Violence in the Decline of the Political Parties
- 5 Democracy Reconstructed: Violence Specialists in the Postwar Period 139
- The Decline of Soshi and the Remaking of Ingaidan Violence
- Violence as a Political and Discursive Weapon in Diet Politics
- "Boryokudan" Redux: Yakuza and the Conservative Nexus
- 1960: The Apogee of Postwar Violence Specialists
- Coda: Political Violence after 1960
- Violence, Fascism, Militarism
- Violence Specialists and History
- A Contemporary Perspective on Violent Democracy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-249) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801447204
- 0801447208
- OCLC:
- 228371893
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