Japanese Political History Since the Meiji Restoration, 1868-2000 – Sims, R.

pdf | 47.55 MB | English| Isbn:0312239157 | Author: Sims, R. | Year: 2002

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Japanese Political History Since the Meiji Restoration, 1868-2000 explores, through a combination of narrative and analysis, the changes in the political process which lay behind Japan’s transformation into a modern nation state; its successive turn toward militarism, fascism, and the Pacific War; and the imposition of a fully dematic constitution. Sims examines closely such central topics as the Meiji renovation, samurai modernisers, the rise of liberal political parties, the Meiji constitution, ‘Taisho demacy’, the wartime changes in the political system, postwar reforms and the ‘reverse course’, four decades of Liberal Dematic rule, and the shake-up of Japanese politics during the 1990s. No other book has covered Japanese political history over the entire period since 1868 in such detail, and the present volume aims to fill the gap between the various general histories of modern Japan and the ever-increasing monographic literature.

Category:Current Affairs & Politics, History, World Politics, Asian History, Asia – Politics & Government, Japanese History, Japan – Politics & Government, Japanese History – 1868 – Present – General & Miscellaneous