1st Edition

The Political History of Modern Japan Foreign Relations and Domestic Politics

By Kitaoka Shinichi Copyright 2018
296 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

296 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

296 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Spanning the 130-year period between the end of the Tokugawa Era and the end of the Cold War, this book introduces students to the formation, collapse, and rebirth of the modern Japanese state. It demonstrates how, faced with foreign threats, Japan developed a new governing structure to deal with these challenges and in turn gradually shaped its international environment. Had Japan been a... Read more

1. The Political Characteristics of the Tokugawa Political System

2. Responding to the West

3. Building the Meiji State

4. Rise of Oppostion 

5. Creation of the Meiji Constitutional Structure

6. The Establishment of Parliament

7. The First Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars

8. Imperial Expansion

9. The Development of Party Government

10. International Cooperation and Party Cabinets

11. The Rise of the Military

12. The Destruction of the Empire

13. Defeat, Occupation, and Peace

14. The Development of LDP Politics

15. Changes in the International Order and the End of the Cold War

16. Japan's Colonies and Their Fates

Biography

Kitaoka Shinichi is President of Japan International Cooperation Agency and Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo and Rikkyo University, Japan.