1st Edition

Japans Struggle With Internation

By Nish Copyright 1993

    This a study of the Manchurian and Shanghai crises, the first serious confrontation between Japan and the world community. The Manchurian crisis was one of the major international crises of the period between World Wars I and II. For Britain and America, it bred a new distrust of Japanese long-term national objectives. It also brought home to all concerned the weaknesses of the League of Nations and the other instruments of collective security which had been devised to deal with problems of the Pacific Ocean area. The first focus of this study is on how one of the international bodies of the time, the League of Nations, attempted to cope with the emergency that broke out in the east in September 1931. The second focus is on the clash of attitudes in Japanese politics. The period covered by the Manchurian crisis was the point when civilian government in Japan was seriously challenged for the first time in the 20th century. The book offers a fresh account of the crisis, making use of new materials, in Japanese and in English, which have become available and which have been drawn upon for this work. These throw new light on the struggles both within Japan and among League enthusiasts to ensure that Japan, the Asian-state which was at once most stable and economically most successful, should not end up in isolation.

    Introduction; Chapter 1 The Mukden Incident and After; Chapter 2 Towards an International Commission, November–December 1931; Chapter 3 Problems Foreign and Domestic; Chapter 4 The Creation of Manchukuo; Chapter 5 The Shanghai Crisis, January-March 1932; Chapter 6 Arrival of the Lytton Commission; Chapter 7 Lytton in Manchuria; Chapter 8 Hiatus in Tokyo and Peking, May–June 1932; Chapter 9 Rush for Recognition of Manchukuo; Chapter 10 The Lytton Report and Japan; Chapter 11 Crisis at Christmas; Chapter 12 The Assembly Resolves, January–February 1933; Chapter 13 Climax and Aftermath; Chapter 14 Some Concluding Thoughts;

    Biography

    Ian Nish