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Author : Nobutaka Ike
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UVA:X000111390
Author : Nobutaka Ike
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Japan
ISBN : 0837118026
Author : R. Sims
Publisher : Springer
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349632404
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 democratic constitution. Sims examines closely such central topics as the Meiji renovation, samurai modernisers, the rise of liberal political parties, the Meiji constitution, 'Taisho democracy', the wartime changes in the political system, postwar reforms and the 'reverse course', four decades of Liberal Democratic 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.
Author : Robert A. Scalapino
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520362543
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1953.
Author : Nobutaka Ike
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Japan
ISBN : OCLC:1436390376
Author : Mark E. Caprio,Yoneyuki Sugita
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134118618
With expert contributions from both the US and Japan, this book examines the legacies of the US Occupation on Japanese politics and society, and discusses the long-term impact of the Occupation on contemporary Japan. Focusing on two central themes – democracy and the interplay of US-initiated reforms and Japan's endogenous drive for democratization and social justice – the contributors address key questions: How did the US authorities and the Japanese people define democracy? To what extent did America impose their notions of democracy on Japan? How far did the Japanese pursue impulses toward reform, rooted in their own history and values? Which reforms were readily accepted and internalized, and which were ultimately subverted by the Japanese as impositions from outside? These questions are tackled by exploring the dynamics of the reform process from the three perspectives of innovation, continuity and compromise, specifically determining the effect that this period made to Japanese social, economic, and political understanding. Critically examines previously unexplored issues that influenced postwar Japan such as the effect of labour and healthcare legislation, textbook revision, and minority policy. Illuminating contemporary Japan, its achievements, its potential and its quandaries, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Japanese-US relations, Japanese history and Japanese politics.
Author : Gail Lee Bernstein
Publisher : Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Japan
ISBN : UCAL:B3897666
The transition between the reign of the powerful emperor Meiji and that of his weak successor Taishō was marked by the emergence of a new individualism in Japanese society, a separation of culture and politics that led to the demise of the traditional Japanese self-dedication to the interests of the state and to a corresponding dedication to modernization in all spheres of existence. The widespread social, political, economic, and cultural changes that occurred during the years of Japan's modernization movement in the early twentieth century are discussed in thirteen essays by Japanese and American scholars concerned with the Taishō period. The contributors employ a diversity of disciplinary and historical approaches: the volume contains essays on intellectual, literary, economic, diplomatic, political, and social history covering the period from 1900 to 1945. The essays relate the new individualism of the Taishō years to such phenomena as literary naturalism, political socialism, the failure of economic expansion, and industrial and agricultural unrest.
Author : Frank McNeil
Publisher : Crown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015048558657
A veteran American diplomat with extensive experience in Japan takes a fresh look at the country's democratic tradition--its troubled past and its uncertain present. McNeil also examines alternative scenarios for Japan's future and outlines the likely outcomes. Advertising in the Washington Post.
Author : Daniel M. Smith
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781503606401
Although democracy is, in principle, the antithesis of dynastic rule, families with multiple members in elective office continue to be common around the world. In most democracies, the proportion of such "democratic dynasties" declines over time, and rarely exceeds ten percent of all legislators. Japan is a startling exception, with over a quarter of all legislators in recent years being dynastic. In Dynasties and Democracy, Daniel M. Smith sets out to explain when and why dynasties persist in democracies, and why their numbers are only now beginning to wane in Japan—questions that have long perplexed regional experts. Smith introduces a compelling comparative theory to explain variation in the presence of dynasties across democracies and political parties. Drawing on extensive legislator-level data from twelve democracies and detailed candidate-level data from Japan, he examines the inherited advantage that members of dynasties reap throughout their political careers—from candidate selection, to election, to promotion into cabinet. Smith shows how the nature and extent of this advantage, as well as its consequences for representation, vary significantly with the institutional context of electoral rules and features of party organization. His findings extend far beyond Japan, shedding light on the causes and consequences of dynastic politics for democracies around the world.
Author : Tetsuya Kataoka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000136643
Author : Walter Wallace McLaren
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136995422
First Published in 1966. In this book, the author has endeavours to supply the information which is essential to the formation of accurate judgments as to the meaning of Japanese policy by reviewing her modern political history, describing her system of government, and explaining her national ambitions. McLaren presents a careful survey of the evolution of the existing political institutions of Japan and an enumeration of the powers exercised by the various authorities and the bureaucracy. The author then follows the history of the Japanese Diet from its establishment in 1890 until the beginning of 1913 – assessing the political parties, their internal dissensions as well as their struggles with the various oligarchic Cabinets.
Author : Stephen S. Large
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0415143209
Author : Ray A. Moore,Donald L. Robinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 019803444X
In 1945, Japan surrendered unconditionally to the United States and its allies, thereby planting the seed from which would spring one of the world's most successful and stable democracies. In an age when democracy is often pursued, yet rarely accomplished, in which failed democracies are found throughout Africa, Latin America, and Asia, Japan's transformation from an utterly defeated military power into a thriving constitutional democracy commands attention. It has long been assumed that postwar Japan was largely the making of America, that democracy was simply imposed on a defeated land. Yet a political and legal system cannot long survive, much less thrive, if resisted by the very citizens it exists to serve. The external imposition of a constitution does not automatically translate into a constitutional democracy of the kind Japan has enjoyed for the past half-century. Apparently Japan, though under military occupation, was ready for what the West had to offer. Ray A. Moore and Donald L. Robinson convincingly show that the country's affirmation of democracy was neither cynical nor merely tactical. What made Japan different was that Japan and the United States-represented in Tokyo by the headstrong and deeply conservative General Douglas MacArthur-worked out a genuine partnership, navigating skillfully among die-hard defenders of the emperor, Japanese communists, and America's opinionated erstwhile allies. No dry recounting of policy decisions and diplomatic gestures, Partners for Democracy resounds with the strong personalities and dramatic clashes that paved the way to a hard-won success. Here is the story of how a devastated land came to construct--at times aggressively and rapidly, at times deliberately and only after much debate-a democracy that stands today as the envy of many other nations.
Author : Takako Kishima
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0691631506
To understand how change occurs in politics, we should turn from concentrating on intentional political actions to exploring everyday life, especially marginal frames of mind in which people are open to questioning existing ideas and institutions. In so contending, Takako Kishima offers fresh understandings of contemporary Japanese politicians and the Japanese political process, while she also proposes an innovative method of looking at politics in general. Kishima points out that taken-for-granted values and beliefs are revealed as arbitrary when people experience intrusions of the marginal, or "liminal." Social marginals, such as outcastes or so-called misfits, are the most likely people to invoke these intrusions, but more ordinary folk are also subjected to them under special conditions ranging from the seemingly trivial--daydreaming, dancing, or getting drunk--to the more profound--war, natural disaster, or ecstatic ritual. During an intrusion the flow of ordinary time seems to stop, and the utilitarian principles of commonplace existence are invalidated--as described by the chapter on Nakasone, "Shedding Tears: Suspension of Politics." Drawing on insights from phenomenology, symbolic anthropology, and post-structuralism, as well as from political science, Kishima shows that the prevalence of liminal experiences in society prevents the reification of authority, allows the transcendence of formal political differences, and permits political change over time. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Ethan Scheiner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521846929
This book explains why no opposition party has been able to offer itself as a sustained challenger in Japan.
