Kitaoka Shinichi

The Political History of Modern Japan

Foreign Relations and Domestic Politics
Übersetzer: Eldridge, Robert; Leonard, Graham

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Spanning the 130-year period between the end of the Tokugawa Era and the end of the Cold War, this textbook introduces students to the formation of the modern Japanese state. It demonstrates how, faced with foreign threats, Japan developed a new governing structure to deal with these challenges and in turn shaped its international environment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9781138337657
• ISBN-10: 113833765X
• Artikelnr.: 54427546

Autorenporträt

Kitaoka Shinichi is President of Japan International Cooperation Agency and Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo and Rikkyo University, Japan.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Political Characteristics of the Tokugawa Political System 2.
Responding to the West 3. Building the Meiji State 4. Rise of Oppostion 5.
Creation of the Meiji Constitutional Structure 6. The Establishment of
Parliament 7. The First Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars 8. Imperial
Expansion 9. The Development of Party Government 10. International
Cooperation and Party Cabinets 11. The Rise of the Military 12. The
Destruction of the Empire 13. Defeat, Occupation, and Peace 14. The
Development of LDP Politics 15. Changes in the International Order and the
End of the Cold War 16. Japan's Colonies and Their Fates