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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451049103321

Titolo

Nationalism and internationalism in imperial Japan : autonomy, Asian brotherhood, or world citizenship? / / edited by Dick Stegewerns

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2003

ISBN

1-135-79060-4

1-280-13957-9

0-203-98905-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Classificazione

89.22

Altri autori (Persone)

StegewernsDick

Disciplina

952.03

Soggetti

Nationalism - Japan - History - 19th century

Nationalism - Japan - History - 20th century

Internationalism

Electronic books.

Japan Intellectual life 1868-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I. Theoretical introduction. The dilemma of nationalism and internationalism in modern Japan: national interest, Asian brotherhood, international cooperation or world citizenship? / Dick Stegewerns -- Liberal nationalism in imperial Japan: the dilemma of nationalism and internationalism / Kevin M. Doak -- Part II. Case studies: the Meiji and Taishō generations. Constructing national identities: Asia, Japan and Europe in Fukuzawa Yukichi's theory of civilisation / Annette Schad-Seifert -- Tokutomi Sohō and the problem of the nation-state in an imperialist world / Alistair Swale -- Nationalist actors in the internationalist theatre: Nitobe Inazō and Ishii Kikujirō and the League of Nations / Thomas W. Burkman -- Yoshino Sakuzō: the isolated figurehead of the Taishō generation / Dick Stegewerns -- Part III. Case studies: The early Shōwa generation. Rōyama Masamichi's perception of international order from the 1920s to 1930s and the concept of the East Asian community / Kobayashi Hiroharu -- Nationalism and internationalism in Japan's economic liberalism: the case of Ishibashi Tanzan / Kurt W. Radtke -- The relation between national socialism



and social democracy in the formation of the international policy of the Shakai Taishūtō / Oikawa Eijirō -- A melancholic nationalism: Yokomitsu Riichi and the aesthetic of cultural mourning / Seiji M. Lippit.

Sommario/riassunto

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