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War, Revolution and Japan.
Title:
War, Revolution and Japan.
Author:
Neary, Ian.
ISBN:
9780203989982
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (190 pages)
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 era -- I -- 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 REACTION.

IMPACTS 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.
Abstract:
The end of the Cold War years has brought tumultuous change. Revolutionary changes, however, are not new to the Japanese.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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