War, revolution & Japan / edited by Ian Neary.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Neary, Ian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japan--Economic conditions.

Japan.

Japan--Social conditions.

Japan--History--1868-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (190 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

War, revolution and Japan

War revolution and Japan

War revolution and Japan.

Place of Publication:

Folkestone : Japan Library, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The end of the Cold War years has brought tumultuous change. Revolutionary changes, however, are not new to the Japanese.

Contents:

Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Contributors; Introduction; 1 Some aspects of the Tokugawa outer world view; 2 The Meiji Restoration: Japan's attempt to inherit China; MING LOYALISM AND JAPANESE NATIONALISM; CHINESE MODELS FOR THE MEIJI RESTORATION; DONNING THE TRAPPINGS OF IMPERIAL CHINA; JAPANESE IMPERIALISM: CHINA INHERITED; NOTES; 3 Soviet-Japanese studies on the problem of the Meiji Ishin and the development of capitalism in Japan; NOTES; 4 Tradition as justification for change: History in the service of the Japanese government (1869-1893); NOTES

5 Between revolution and reaction: The Japanese women's movement in the Taisho eraI; II; III; IV; V; NOTES; 6 Green before their time? The pre-war Japanese anarchist movement; JAPANESE 'PURE ANARCHISM'; THE CRITIQUE OF SCIENCE; THE CRITIQUE OF THE CITIES; THE CRITIQUE OF PRODUCTIONISM; CONCLUSION; NOTES; 7 The status of the Emperor as a national symbol in the fifteen-year war period 1931-1945; THE MANCHURIAN INCIDENT AND THE RISE OF NATIONALISM; THE OUTBREAK OF THE SINO-JAPANESE WAR AND INCREASING PRESSURE FOR UNITY; THE PACIFIC WAR-ABSOLUTE UNITY; CONCLUSIONS; NOTES

8 The post-surrender democratisation of Japan: Was it a revolution?9 A revolution in labour law? The fate of the trade union act in post-war Japan; BIBLIOGRAPHY; 10 Japanese perceptions of the 1989 Eastern European revolutions; THE EAST EUROPEAN REVOLUTIONS IN WORLD HISTORY; REVOLUTION, REFORM OR COUNTER-REVOLUTION?-FROM ASAHI-SHINBUN NEWS REPORTS; THE POPULAR IMAGE OF 'REVOLUTION' IN JAPAN-VIOLENT AND BLOODY MASS REVOLT; THE DOMINANT IMAGE OF 'REVOLUTION' IN JAPANESE ACADEMIC CIRCLES-FROM 'BOURGEOIS DEMOCRATIC' TO 'PROLETARIAN SOCIALIST' REVOLUTION

THE 'CIVIL REVOLUTION' SCHOOL AND ITS REACTIONIMPACTS ON PARTY POLITICS-FROM THE 'SP-CGP-DSP' BLOC TO THE 'LDP-CGP-DSP'; THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SPJ TO A SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY; THE FALL OF THE COMINTERN'S TRADITION AND THE ISOLATION OF THE JCP; CRISIS? POSSIBILITY FOR REBIRTH? OR THE END OF SOCIALISM?-ARGUMENTS AMONG LEFT INTELLECTUALS; THE TRIUMPH OF CAPITALISM?'-LESSONS FOR JAPANESE BUSINESS LEADERS; THE MINIMUM SOCIALIST ORIENTATION IN JAPAN AND THE MAXIMUM 'LEARNING FROM JAPAN' BOOM IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION AND EASTERN EUROPE

'A BIG BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY FOR JAPANESE'-ECONOMY-CENTRED PERCEPTION'A FIRE ACROSS THE SEA'-PASSIVE AND DREAMLESS PERCEPTION; 11 Yellow Athena: the Japanese model and the East European revolution; THE ARGUMENT; FOOTNOTES TO HEGEL; FROM KOJEVE TO FUKUYAMA; JAPAN AND HEGEL; YELLOW ATHENA; CIVIL SOCIETY IN HEGELIAN PERSPECTIVE; THE LIMITS OF ENGLISH THOUGHT; NOTES; Index

Notes:

Selected papers from the 6th International Conference on Japanese Studies organized by the European Association for Japanese Studies and held in the Japanese-German Centre, Berlin, September, 1991.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-135-31901-4

1-280-14701-6

0-203-98998-8

9780203989982

OCLC:

475949340