[PDF] Japans Struggle With Internation eBook

Author : Ian Nish
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 29,72 MB
Release : 1993
Category : China
ISBN : 0710304374

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First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Lester Brooks
Publisher : New York : McGraw-Hill
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 49,15 MB
Release : 1967
Category : History
ISBN :

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Account of the tragic days between the explosion of the first A-bomb and the surrender of Japan. The author has drawn on captured documents, Allied interrogations, the Tokyo Trials, and interviews. He has gone back into Japanese history to learn the ways of thought and the inner rhythm of the culture that led Japan into World War II and defeat.

Author : Warren S. Hunsberger
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 26,47 MB
Release : 1996-12-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780765635198

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An international team of ten specialists in Japanese and American foreign relations address the crucial question: what role should Japan play in international affairs? This question has not found a fully satisfactory answer since the forced opening to foreign contacts in the mid-nineteenth century. Having copied foreign models and achieved a series of stunning successes -- and some failures -- in many aspects of private and public life, Japan today stands at a pinnacle of economic power and affluence. Despite this, both economics and politics are undergoing major strains and changes during the 1990s, and the quest for true internationalization is fraught with problems and only partially fulfilled. This book is a joint project of the American University in Washington and Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto.

Author : Mark Metzler
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 17,74 MB
Release : 2006-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0520931793

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This book, the first full account of Japan’s financial history and the Japanese gold standard in the pivotal years before World War II, provides a new perspective on the global political dynamics of the era by placing Japan, rather than Europe, at the center of the story. Focusing on the fall of liberalism in Japan in late 1931 and the global politics of money that were at the center of the crisis, Mark Metzler asks why successive Japanese governments from 1920 to 1931 carried out policies that deliberately induced deflation and depression. His search for answers stretches from Edo to London to the ragged borderlands of the Japanese empire and from the eighteenth century to the 1950s, integrating political and monetary analysis to shed light on the complex dynamics of money, empire, and global hegemony. His detailed and broad ranging account illuminates a range of issues including Japan’s involvement in the economic dynamics that shook interwar Europe, the character of U.S. isolationism, and the rise of fascism as an international phenomenon.

Author : Chalmers Johnson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 10,22 MB
Release : 1982-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 080476560X

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The focus of this book is on the Japanese economic bureaucracy, particularly on the famous Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), as the leading state actor in the economy. Although MITI was not the only important agent affecting the economy, nor was the state as a whole always predominant, I do not want to be overly modest about the importance of this subject. The particular speed, form, and consequences of Japanese economic growth are not intelligible without reference to the contributions of MITI. Collaboration between the state and big business has long been acknowledged as the defining characteristic of the Japanese economic system, but for too long the state's role in this collaboration has been either condemned as overweening or dismissed as merely supportive, without anyone's ever analyzing the matter. The history of MITI is central to the economic and political history of modern Japan. Equally important, however, the methods and achievements of the Japanese economic bureaucracy are central to the continuing debate between advocates of the communist-type command economies and advocates of the Western-type mixed market economies. The fully bureaucratized command economies misallocate resources and stifle initiative; in order to function at all, they must lock up their populations behind iron curtains or other more or less impermeable barriers. The mixed market economies struggle to find ways to intrude politically determined priorities into their market systems without catching a bad case of the "English disease" or being frustrated by the American-type legal sprawl. The Japanese, of course, do not have all the answers. But given the fact that virtually all solutions to any of the critical problems of the late twentieth century--energy supply, environmental protection, technological innovation, and so forth--involve an expansion of official bureaucracy, the particular Japanese priorities and procedures are instructive. At the very least they should forewarn a foreign observer that the Japanese achievements were not won without a price being paid.