Japanese Political History since the Meiji Renovation 1868-2000

Sims, Richard L.

Palgrave Macmillan（2001/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 395 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780312239145
• DDC分類 952.033

Full Description

This work 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. This volume aims to fill the gap between the various general histories of modern Japan and the ever increasing monographic literature .

Contents

The Meiji renovation; the consolidation of the Meiji State and the growth of political opposition, 1878-1890; the constitutional experiment and the beginning of compromise politics, 1890-1905; political party consolidation, oligarchic reaction and the emergence of new forces, 1905-1918; party cabinets, radical movements and the collapse of Taisho democracy, 1918-1932; the pursuit of greater national unity and the war state, 1932-1945; the postwar reshaping of japanese politics, 1945-1952; the "1955 System" and the era of LDP dominance, 1952-1993; the shake up of Japanese politics, 1993-2000.