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Peter Duus (1) (1933–)

Teoksen Modern Japan tekijä

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Yleistieto

Syntymäaika
1933
Sukupuoli
male

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Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1 What is feudalism?
Chapter 2 From tribal rule to civil monarchy
Sixth-century Japan
The emergence of a centralized monarchy
The growth of the aristocracy
The estate system
Chapter 3 From civil monarchy to warrior rule
The local warrior
The political emergence of the warrior chieftains
The establishment of the Kamakura Bakufu
The consolidation of the Bakufu
Chapter 4 From warrior rule to feudal anarchy
The decline of the Bakufu authority
The decline of the estate system
The rise of the provincial constable
The daimyo at war
The daimyo at peace
Chapter 5 From feudal anarchy to national unity
Reunificaton
The Edo Bakufu
The growth of the bureaucracy
The freezing of society
The abolition of feudal forms
Bibliography
Choronology
Glossary
Index
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AikiBib | Aug 14, 2022 |
In September 1931, Japan began a series of conquests that ended fourteen years later with a surrender signed in Tokyo Bay and the dismantling of their empire. Yet despite the scale of Japan's dominion and its role in reshaping East Asia and the western Pacific there has been relatively little written about this empire. One of the few books available that gives readers a sense of the origins of the empire, its operations, and its legacy is this collection of essays. The product of a 1991 academic conference, the thirteen chapters that comprise the text offer readers an incomplete yet valuable mosaic of its subject, one that is all the more worth reading because of the paucity of other works on the topic.

The essays in the book are divided into four groups, each of which examines different aspects of the empire. The first of these concentrates on the role Japan's prewar colonies in Korea and Taiwan played in their newly expanded empire, showing the ongoing Japanese efforts to assimilate their territories into a Japan-dominated East Asia. Here the two authors, Carter Eckert and Wan-yao Chou, emphasize the efforts of the Japanese to incorporate these territories into their economic network, even to the point of encouraging industrialization. Yet development increased the demand for raw materials at a time when the Depression-driven trends were causing trade to break down. This fueled the drive for further territories, which is the focus of the book's second and third sections. In these two parts, which together comprise the heart of the book, focus on the two stages of Japan's imperial expansion during this period: first the conquest of Manchuria, and then the Western imperial possessions in southeast Asia. Here readers learn of the growing domestic enthusiasm for empire, the effort to expand Japan's economic dominion of the region, and the response of indigenous groups in southeastern Asia to the Japanese-driven challenge to the Western empires in their region. The final section of the book expands the focus chronologically by considering the postwar legacy of Japan's empire and how it compared to that of its wartime partner, Nazi Germany. In these essays, the authors involved consider the enduring legacy of Japan's empire, and how it continued to define the region for the next half-century and more.

Though the essays themselves address specific topics, collectively they provide a surprisingly coherent overview of Japan's empire during this period, with the key arguments in the essays stitched together by Peter Duus's superb introduction at the start of the book into a comprehensive picture of its overall subject. The result is a work that serves as a useful resource for anyone seeking to learn about Japan's wartime empire and the changes it brought to eastern Asia. The authors' labors are especially valuable considering the long shadow the war continues to cast on the region. For while readers interested in the empire or the war itself will undoubtedly find much of interest in this collection, given the extent to which the region still bears the imprint of the conflict it is one that should be also read by anyone interested in understanding it today.
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MacDad | Mar 27, 2020 |
The book starts off with interesting reflections on how the leaders of Meiji Japan reacted to Western imperialism and began to form plans for emulating it. However, in Part One, which is more than 200 pages long, the author assumes a too narrow perspective as he recounts the history of Japan's economic, military and political penetration of Korea. Throughout this presentation he sticks firmly to the records of contemporary Japanese political debate.

It's understandable that the author's inability to read Korean forced him to leave out the counterpart's perspective - a fact which he apologizes for. But a bigger omission is that even contemporary events in Japanese history fade completely to the background. When discussing Japanese commercial involvement in Korea, he suddenly mentions in an offhand comment that Japan was at this time in war with China. What? When did that happen? The 1905 war against Russia enters the discussion a little bit more, but not nearly enough to help the reader place it into the perspective of the Korean story.

This hampers the narrative because it feels like the author focuses on small details without seeing the forest for the trees. He accounts for the opinions of numerous influential Japanese persons in this period, but only insofar as they concerned Korea. But if the nation was at war somewhere, presumably these opinions on Korea would have been influenced by that war. For the most part, the author gives the impression that opinions about Korea were formed in a vacuum.

Fortunately he switches to a more relaxed mode of presentation in Part Two which discusses Japanese colonialism in Korea from an economic, sociological and ideological perspective. It's interesting to learn that free market ideas and entrepreneurship had already become a central a part of Japanese society at the end of the nineteenth century. All in all, even though this book contains sections of interesting material particularly in the beginning and at the end, it's quite long and seems to have been written primarily for experts in Japanese history, so I wouldn't recommend it to a general reader.
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thcson | May 20, 2019 |

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Teokset
9
Jäseniä
368
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#65,433
Arvio (tähdet)
½ 3.5
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3
ISBN:t
44
Kielet
3

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