The Challenge Of Japan Before World War Ii And After

Author : Nazli Choucri,Robert C. North,Susumu Yamakage
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136130281

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Challenge of Japan Before World War II by Nazli Choucri,Robert C. North,Susumu Yamakage Pdf

First published in 1993.This book examines the relationships between the economic, political and strategic expansion of a country, and its tendency towards conflict and war. The authors use the example of Japan to demonstrate that it is uneven economic development and the search for basic resources and markets that often set the stage for war and international conflict. Thus the pursuit of legitimate national goals - for example the expansion of a nation's industrial base - may put it into competitive, poten­tially conflicting relationships with countries with similar objectives. The names of the authors will attract all International Relations scholars who will know Choucri and North's Nations in Conflict and will have been awaiting the outcome of their fifteen years of research on Japan. The book is also invaluable reading for advanced undergraduate and postgrad­uate students of Japan and other Asian area studies, political economy and political science.

Author : Nazil Choucri,Robert Carver North,Susumu Yamakage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0044459432

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The Challenge of Japan by Nazil Choucri,Robert Carver North,Susumu Yamakage Pdf

Author : Sylvia Ostry
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226637914

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The Post-Cold War Trading System by Sylvia Ostry Pdf

With the end of the Cold War, the search for a new international and economic order has begun. In this comprehensive account, Sylvia Ostry provides a critical analysis of an international trade system in the throes of rapid and far-reaching change. With keen historical awareness, Ostry examines the role of key economic power brokers, particularly the United States, in the reconstruction and reconfiguration of an international economy after World War II. She argues that U.S. policy efforts were so successful that they led to an unprecedented renewal of economic growth, living standards, and education levels in postwar Europe and Japan. Ironically, those same policy successes unintentionally fostered the relative decline of U.S. dominance on the world trade scene as the reduction of trade and investment barriers prompted friction and conflict between different kinds of capitalist systems. Identifying the historical and legal issues key to postwar trade policy, Ostry has commandingly charted our economic course through the last half of this century and, perhaps, into the next. "Sylvia Ostry knows this subject as few others do, both as a scholar of international trade issues and a major player in the ongoing negotiations that have created the rules of the trade game. The Post-Cold War Trading System is a fine summary of where we've been and where we ought to be going."—Peter Passell, economic scene columnist for The New York Times

Author : Euan Graham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134250912

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Japan's Sea Lane Security by Euan Graham Pdf

This is the first major English-language study to explore the broad and longstanding connections between Japan’s national security and the safety of its sea lanes. Tracing issues from pre-and post-1945 eras, the book explores how Japan’s concerns with sea lane protection have developed across such diverse fields as military strategy, diplomacy, trade policy, energy security, and law enforcement. Drawing upon case study material and primary research including interviews with officials and security analysts, the book presents a chronological analysis of Japan’s sea lane security. While Japan’s security policies have recently undergone relatively rapid change, a historical treatment of sea lane security issues reveals long-term continuity in security policymakers’ perceptions and responses regarding Japan's defence and foreign policy. Revealing a neglected but important aspect of Japan’s military and economic security, the book investigates why officials and analysts continue to portray the defence of Japan’s sea lanes as ‘a matter of life and death’.

Author : Antony Best,Oliviero Frattolillo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137546746

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Japan and the Great War by Antony Best,Oliviero Frattolillo Pdf

In this book, seven internationally renowned experts on Japanese and Asian history have come together to investigate, with innovative methodological approaches, various aspects of the Japanese experience during and after the First World War.

Author : David M. O'Brien
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1996-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0824811666

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To Dream of Dreams by David M. O'Brien Pdf

Prior to World War II, State Shinto, which was centered on the worship of the emperor and Yasukuni Shrine's cult of war dead, was established in support of the government and militarism. Since the end of the Occupation, Japanese conservatives have sought to restore State Shinto's institutions even as expanded military budgets have placed Japan among the top five countries in defense spending. This timely book focuses on the struggles against government attempts to revive "the emperor system" and Japan's prewar military presence. Organized around case studies and based on extensive interviews, To Dream treats the operations of the Japanese court system thoroughly and uncovers important cases regarding religious liberty that remain little known even among specialists on modern Japanese history and society. It shows that litigation has been brought by pacifists, liberals, and others fiercely opposed to renewed militarism and to governmental support for the symbolism and institutions of State Shinto. Throughout, the author offers important information on the composition of courts involved and the attitudes of specific judges and provides translated texts of significant judicial decisions, in the process dispelling the stereotype of the Japanese as "reluctant litigants."

Author : Ian Kershaw
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141915043

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Fateful Choices by Ian Kershaw Pdf

In 1940 the world was on a knife-edge. The hurricane of events that marked the opening of the Second World War meant that anything could happen. For the aggressors there was no limit to their ambitions; for their victims a new Dark Age beckoned. Over the next few months their fates would be determined. In Fateful Choices Ian Kershaw re-creates the ten critical decisions taken between May 1940, when Britain chose not to surrender, and December 1941, when Hitler decided to destroy Europe’s Jews, showing how these choices would recast the entire course of history.

Author : Johann P. Arnason
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317793120

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Social Theory and Japanese Experience by Johann P. Arnason Pdf

First published in 1997. This book is addressed to two kinds of readers: to social theorists, on the grounds that the Japanese experience is or should be of particular relevance to their problems, and to scholars working on Japanese history, culture and society, in the hope that the theoretical interpretations outlined below may be of some interest to them.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Japan
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070158311

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Japan by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ronald W Cox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429723742

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Business And The State In International Relations by Ronald W Cox Pdf

Challenging the traditional notion that state officials act autonomously in formulating and implementing international policy, the contributors to this volume argue that the influence of organized business groups has been consistently underestimated in recent decades. Each uses a "business conflict" model of state-society relations as a new paradig

Author : William R. Thompson
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 1570032793

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Great Power Rivalries by William R. Thompson Pdf

This volume examines interstate rivalries of the past 500 years, providing case studies of those between land powers with continental orientations, and leading maritime powers and challengers. The contributors focus on the transition from commercial to strategic rivalry.

Author : Oliviero Frattolilio
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443865111

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Interwar Japan beyond the West by Oliviero Frattolilio Pdf

In the late nineteenth century, Japan was the only non-Western country to have successfully faced the challenges of Westernization. At the end of the Meiji Era, just three decades after the end of the country’s feudal age, it became Great Britain’s ally, while its soldiers were deployed in Beijing, operating alongside the great European powers. Meanwhile, in Japan, the perception of a scientifically and technologically advanced West came to be imbued by negative connotations, generated by the threatening Western presence in Asia. In order to avoid succumbing to the European imperialist yoke, Japan has itself gradually converted its international status by embracing an imperialistic identity. The new image of the world responding to the current historical situation could only result from a philosophy immersed in historicity, far from its metaphysical dimension. In a philosophy mediated by history, self-awareness would have coincided with the “historical manifestations of history”. Based on these premises, the Chūōkōron group seemed to have presented Japan’s hegemonic aspirations as an expression of its “real historical manifestation”. This sounded like an explicit declaration of ideologically supporting the country’s involvement in the war. But what is the meaning that the participants in the debates attributed to the idea of Japan’s “real historical manifestation”? The answer lies in a moral obligation that the country saw as “the duty” of world history: overcoming modern civilization while promoting a new culture.

Author : Werner Gruhl
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0765803526

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Imperial Japan's World War Two by Werner Gruhl Pdf

The full extent and brutality of imperial Japans actions before and during the Second World War has not had the same cultural and political resonances as those of Nazi Germany, nor are they as well remembered. Werner Gruhls objective is to present a fresh overview of the Asian-Pacific War and its victims, drawing particular attention to the neglected history of Japans invasion of China and Southeast Asia. Gruhl seeks to show that the war in Asia and the Pacific is as much about Shanghai, Nanking, and Manila as about Pearl Harbor, Midway, and Hiroshima. Gruhls narrative makes clear why Japans World War II aggression still touches deep emotions with East Asians and Western ex-prisoners of war, and why there is justifiable sensitivity to the way modern Japan has dealt with this legacy. Knowledge of the enormity of Japans total war is also necessary to assess the United States and her allies policies toward Japan, and their reactions to its actions, extending from Manchuria in 1931 to Hiroshima in 1945. Gruhl takes the view that World War II started in 1931 when Japan, crowded and poor in raw materials but with a sense of military invincibility, saw empire as her salvation and invaded China. Japans imperial regime had volatile ambitions but limited resources, thus encouraging them to unleash a particularly brutal offensive against the peoples of Asia and surrounding ocean islands. Their 1931 to 1945 invasions and policies further added to Asias pre-war woes, particularly in China, by badly disrupting marginal economies, leading to famines and epidemics.Altogether, the victims of Japans World War Two aggression took many forms and were massive in number. Gruhl offers a survey and synthesisof the historical literature and documentation, statistical data, as well as personal interviews and first-hand accounts to provide a comprehensive overview analysis. The sequence of diplomatic and military events leading to Pearl Harbor, as well as those leading to the U.S. decision to drop the atom bomb, are explored here as well as Japans war crimes and postwar revisionist/apologist views regarding them. This book will be of intense interest to Asian specialists, and those concerned with human rights issues in a historical context.

Author : Daqing Yang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684173792

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Technology of Empire by Daqing Yang Pdf

In the extension of the Japanese empire in the 1930s and 1940s, technology, geo-strategy, and institutions were closely intertwined in empire building. The central argument of this study of the development of a communications network linking the far-flung parts of the Japanese imperium is that modern telecommunications not only served to connect these territories but, more important, made it possible for the Japanese to envision an integrated empire in Asia. Even as the imperial communications network served to foster integration and strengthened Japanese leadership and control, its creation and operation exacerbated long-standing tensions and created new conflicts within the government, the military, and society in general.

Author : K. Rasler,W. Thompson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781403982308

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Puzzles of the Democratic Peace by K. Rasler,W. Thompson Pdf

Ever since the revival of Kant's Perpetual Peace thesis, the linkages between democracy and peace has been a central topic in international relations research, with sustained debate over whether it exists and if it does, why it does. In this stimulating volume, two leading IR scholars place the democratic peace debate within a broader context, including the extent of threats in international relations, degree of satisfaction with the status quo, the diffusion of democracy, and the rise of the trading state. Step by step, Thompson and Rasler examine the democratic peace through a series of puzzles concerning arguments at the dyadic, systemic, and individual state levels. Synthesizing a broad range of knowledge and linking islands of theory, Puzzles of the Democratic Peace provides a distinctive look at the state of the field and paths forward.