[PDF] Palace And Politics In Prewar Japan eBook

Author : Lesley Connors
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 23,55 MB
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1136900241

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Saionji Kinmochi was an aristocrat, a scholar and a progressive liberal politician who twice occupied the highest political office in the nation and who, during three decades, as adviser to three Emperors, coordinated and directed Japanese politics. His long life encompassed the emergence of the modern Japanese state, the establishment of the constitution, the integration of Japan into the inter-war, international community and the creation, and subsequent erosion of the democratic process. The story of his twilight years chronicles the conflicts between the goals of liberalism and internationalism which dominated Japanese politics in the 1920s and the right-wing militarism which held sway in the years leading to the Pacific War. He was a central figure in the turbulent, formative period of Japan’s political ideology.

Author : Stephen Large
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 14,52 MB
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134968760

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Emperor Hirohito reigned for more than sixty years, yet we know little about him or the part he really played in the turbulent history of Showa Japan. Stephen Large draws on a wide range of Japanese and Western sources in his study of Emperor Hirohito's political role in Showa Japan (1926-89). This analysis focuses on key events in his career such as the extent to which he bore responsibility for Japanese aggression in the Pacific in 1941, and explains why Hirohito remains such a contested symbol in Japanese post war politics.

Author : Peter von Staden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 17,51 MB
Release : 2007-08-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134150474

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This book is a much needed exploration on the relationship between government and business in pre-war Japan, making an important contribution to the literature by considering periods which have often been neglected by scholars.

Author : Ian Gow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 47,58 MB
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1135795924

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This is a study of the impact of inter-war naval arms control policy-making on the domestic politics of Japan, especially the areas of civil-military, inter-military (Army/Navy) and especially intra-military (Navy) relations and on the professional and political career of one leading naval figure, Admiral Kato Kanji (1873-1939). In this re-appraisal of Kato's career, the author challenges the conventional and negative interpretation of both Kato's role in the naval politics and factions within the Imperial Navy, utilizing Kato's involvement in the domestic political debate as a focal device for studying two key areas of Japanese civil-military relations: civilian control and the phenomenon of massive, overt naval intervention in domestic politics.

Author : Ben-Ami Shillony
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 17,84 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Japan
ISBN : 9780198202608

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This analysis of the politics and culture of Japan during the period of World War II argues that the wartime regime, repressive as it was, was very different from contemporary totalitarian states.

Author : Kenneth J. Ruoff
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 39,18 MB
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1684176166

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"With the ascension of a new emperor and the dawn of the Reiwa Era, Kenneth J. Ruoff has expanded upon and updated The People’s Emperor, his study of the monarchy’s role as a political, societal, and cultural institution in contemporary Japan. Many Japanese continue to define the nation’s identity through the imperial house, making it a window into Japan’s postwar history. Ruoff begins by examining the reform of the monarchy during the U.S. occupation and then turns to its evolution since the Japanese regained the power to shape it. To understand the monarchy’s function in contemporary Japan, the author analyzes issues such as the role of individual emperors in shaping the institution, the intersection of the monarchy with politics, the emperor’s and the nation’s responsibility for the war, nationalistic movements in support of the monarchy, and the remaking of the once-sacrosanct throne into a “people’s imperial house” embedded in the postwar culture of democracy. Finally, Ruoff examines recent developments, including the abdication of Emperor Akihito and the heir crisis, which have brought to the forefront the fragility of the imperial line under the current legal system, leading to calls for reform."

Author : Gregory J. Kasza
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 15,63 MB
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0520913795

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Gregory Kasza examines state-society relations in interwar Japan through a case study of public policy toward radio, film, newspapers, and magazines.

Author : Kenneth J. Ruoff
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 21,13 MB
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1684173701

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Few institutions are as well suited as the monarchy to provide a window on postwar Japan. The monarchy, which is also a family, has been significant both as a political and as a cultural institution. This comprehensive study analyzes numerous issues, including the role of individual emperors in shaping the institution, the manner in which the emperor’s constitutional position as symbol has been interpreted, the emperor’s intersection with politics through ministerial briefings, memories of Hirohito’s wartime role, nationalistic movements in support of Foundation Day and the reign-name system, and the remaking of the once sacrosanct throne into a "monarchy of the masses" embedded in the postwar culture of democracy. The author stresses the monarchy’s "postwarness," rather than its traditionality.