Japanese Political History Since the Meiji Restoration, 1868-2000 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780312239152)

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: R. Sims
ISBN-10: 0312239157
ISBN-13: 9780312239152
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 02/22/2002
Pages: 395
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.30d