The Emergence of Meiji Japan
The Emergence of Meiji Japan

Author: Marius B. Jansen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-09-29

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780521484053

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This paperback edition brings together chapters from volume 5 of The Cambridge History of Japan. Japan underwent momentous changes during the middle decades of the nineteenth century. This book chronicles the hardships of the Tempo era in the 1830s, the crisis of values and confidence during the last half century of Tokugawa rule, and the political process that finally brought down the Tokugawa regime and ended centuries of warrior rule. It goes on to discuss the samurai rebellions against the Meiji Restoration, and national movements for constitutional government which indirectly resulted in the Meiji Constitution of 1889. The significance of Japan's Meiji transformation for the rest of the world is the subject of the final chapter, in which Professor Akira Iriye discusses Japan's drive to Great Power status. 'Constitutional rule at home, imperialism abroad', became new goals for early twentieth-century Japan.

Japanese Political History Since the Meiji Restoration, 1868-2000
Japanese Political History Since the Meiji Restoration, 1868-2000

Author: R. Sims

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-06-12

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 1349632406

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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.

Political History of Japan During the Meiji Era, 1867-1912
Political History of Japan During the Meiji Era, 1867-1912

Author: Walter Wallace McLaren

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-23

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1136995498

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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.

Japan in Crisis
Japan in Crisis

Author: Gail Lee Bernstein

Publisher: U of M Center for Japanese Studies

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13:

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A classic study of culture and politics in early twentieth-century Japan.

Politics and Society in Japan's Meiji Restoration
Politics and Society in Japan's Meiji Restoration

Author: Anne Walthall

Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education

Published: 2016-01-27

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1319054129

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In the history of nineteenth-century imperialism, Japan is unique among non-western countries for its ability to fend off foreign domination. In this volume, Anne Walthall and M. William Steele examine how the tumultuous events happening inside Japan in the early nineteenth century contributed to this resiliency against western supremacy. The Introduction familiarizes students with the political and social conditions that contributed to Japan's development in the 1800s and details the events and causes of the Meiji Restoration, known among historians today as the Meiji revolution. The documents, some translated here for the first time, provide students with a range of perspectives on how Japanese people in the nineteenth century thought and acted in dealing with foreign pressure and domestic discord. Document headnotes, a chronology, questions for consideration, maps, and a bibliography all enrich students' understanding of Japan on the brink of modernity.