1st Edition

Nationalism and Internationalism in Imperial Japan Autonomy, Asian Brotherhood, or World Citizenship?

By Dick Stegewerns Copyright 2003
    272 Pages
    by Routledge

    270 Pages
    by Routledge

    Throughout the history of modern Japan there has been a continuous struggle to create an integrated conception of how a politically and/or culturally autonomous Japan might relate to a pluralistic and interactive world. The aim of this study is to scrutinise nationalist and internationalist rhetoric by means of comparatively constant factors such as personal views of humanity, civilisation, progress, the nation and the outside world, and thus to develop new approaches towards the question of the relationship between Japanese nationalism and internationalism.
    This project brings together a group of comparatively young scholars who analyse how different generations of opinion leaders in the Japanese pre-war modern era tried to solve what they perceived as the dilemma of nationalism and internationalism.

    Preface; Note on Japanese, Chinese and Korean Names and Publications; Part I: Theoretical Introduction; Chapter 1: The Dilemma of Nationalism and Internationalism in Modern Japan: National Interest, Asian Brotherhood, international Cooperation or Wold Citizenship?, Dick Stegewerns; Chapter 2: Liberal Nationalism in Imperial Japan: The Dilemma of Nationalism and Internationalism, Kevin M. Doak; Part II: Case Studies: The Meiji and Taisho Generations; Chapter 3: Constructing National Identities: Asia, Japan and Europe in Fukuzawa Yukichi's Theory of Civilization, Annette Schad-Seifert; Chapter 4: Tokutomi Soho and the Problem of the Nation-State in an Imperialist World, Alistair Swale; Chapter 5: Nationalist Actors in the Internationalist Theatre: Nitobe Inazo and Ishii Kikujiro and the League of Nations, Thomas W. Burkman; Chapter 6: Yoshino Sakuzo: The Isolated Figurehead of the Taisho Generation, Dick Stegewerns; Part III: Case Studies: The Early Showa Generation; Chapter 7: Royama Mashimichi's Perception of International Order from the 1920s to1930s and the Concept of the East Asian Community, Kobayashi Hiroharu; Chapter 8: Nationalism and Internationalism in Japan's Economic Liberalism: The Case of Ishibashi Tanzan, Kurt W. Radtke; Chapter 9: The Relation Between National Socialism and Social Democracy in the Formation of the International Policy of the Shakai Taishuto, Oikawa Eijiro; Chapter 10: A Melancholic Nationalism: Yokomitsu and the Aesthetic of Cultural Mourning, Seiji M. Lippit; Contributors; Index

    Biography

    Dick Stegewerns