The Cambridge History of JapanJohn Whitney Hall Japan has played a key role in spurring this transformation. Once an isolated island society, little known to its neighbours and practically unknown to the West, Japan has emerged today as a leading economic power. The country's rise to a position of international prominence has not been a smooth process, however - it has come only after a period of turmoil and conflict. Volume 6 provides a general introduction to Japan's history during the first three quarters of the twentieth century, with emphasis on political, economic, social and intellectual trends. Leading historians have contributed essays dealing with the development of domestic politics, particularly the politics of representative institutions, and Japan's relations with the outside world, including its prewar territorial expansion and aggrandizement on the Asian continent. Although written by specialists, this volume will be an important reference work for general readers as well as scholars and students of modern Japanese history. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
from success to success | 14 |
from instability to stability | 30 |
The establishment of party cabinets 18981932 | 55 |
The establishment of the Seiyūkai | 66 |
Conditions for party cabinets | 76 |
Conclusion | 96 |
Postwar politics 19451973 | 154 |
Recovery | 467 |
War | 480 |
Conclusion | 492 |
Macroeconomic performance | 502 |
The changing industrial structure | 516 |
Characteristics of Japanese enterprises | 527 |
Economic policy | 533 |
The transformation of rural society 19001950 | 541 |
high economic | 184 |
The Japanese colonial empire 18951945 | 217 |
The empire assembled 18951922 | 224 |
concepts | 237 |
Administering the empire | 244 |
development | 252 |
emigration | 260 |
The indigenous response to Japanese colonialism | 266 |
World War I and Japan | 277 |
Shidehara diplomacy versus Tanaka diplomacy | 285 |
The occupation of Manchuria | 295 |
The China conflict | 302 |
The Pacific | 315 |
Collisions with the Soviet Union | 321 |
The south beckons | 328 |
Diplomacy founders | 337 |
The Nagumo controversy | 343 |
What next? | 349 |
Tightening the perimeter | 358 |
Philippines to Iwō | 364 |
Toward a decisive battle | 370 |
Overview | 376 |
Industrialization and technological change 18851920 | 385 |
FIGURES | 386 |
Depression recovery and war 19201945 | 451 |
The roots of protest | 555 |
The tenant movement | 576 |
Nōhonshugi | 589 |
Epilogue | 604 |
Relations University of Illinois ChampaignUrbana | 606 |
employment in Japanese factories 19091956 | 614 |
The emergence of dualism in the labor market | 621 |
Labor conflict and industrial relations 19201945 | 629 |
factories by size of factory | 630 |
Postwar labor relations 19451955 | 646 |
Socialism liberalism and Marxism 19011931 | 654 |
The collapse of the socialist movement | 666 |
Minponshugi | 673 |
Toward radicalism | 681 |
The revival of socialism | 687 |
Yamakawa Hitoshi and the change in direction | 698 |
the paradox of Japanese | 708 |
Culturalism | 734 |
Cultural particularism | 741 |
The debate on modernity | 758 |
Epilogue | 768 |
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