War, revolution & Japan [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Ian Neary

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784003003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Folkestone, : Japan Library, 1993
• ISBN: 1-135-31901-4; 1-280-14701-6; 0-203-98998-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (190 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): NearyIan
• Disciplina: 952
• Soggetti: Japan Economic conditions; Japan Social conditions; Japan History 1868-
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Selected papers from the 6th International Conference on Japanese Studies organized by the European Association for Japanese Studies and held in the Japanese-German Centre, Berlin, September, 1991.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Contributors; Introduction; 1 Some aspects of the Tokugawa outer world view; 2 The Meiji Restoration: Japan's attempt to inherit China; MING LOYALISM AND JAPANESE NATIONALISM; CHINESE MODELS FOR THE MEIJI RESTORATION; DONNING THE TRAPPINGS OF IMPERIAL CHINA; JAPANESE IMPERIALISM: CHINA INHERITED; NOTES; 3 Soviet-Japanese studies on the problem of the Meiji Ishin and the development of capitalism in Japan; NOTES; 4 Tradition as justification for change: History in the service of the Japanese government (1869-1893); NOTES; 5 Between revolution and reaction: The Japanese women's movement in the Taisho eraI; II; III; IV; V; NOTES; 6 Green before their time? The pre-war Japanese anarchist movement; JAPANESE 'PURE ANARCHISM'; THE CRITIQUE OF SCIENCE; THE CRITIQUE OF THE CITIES; THE CRITIQUE OF PRODUCTIONISM; CONCLUSION; NOTES; 7 The status of the Emperor as a national symbol in the fifteen-year war period 1931-1945; THE MANCHURIAN INCIDENT AND THE RISE OF NATIONALISM; THE OUTBREAK OF THE SINO-JAPANESE WAR AND INCREASING PRESSURE FOR UNITY; THE PACIFIC WAR-ABSOLUTE UNITY; CONCLUSIONS; NOTES; 8 The post-surrender democratisation of Japan: Was it a revolution?9 A revolution in labour law? The fate of the trade union act in post-war Japan; BIBLIOGRAPHY; 10 Japanese perceptions of the 1989 Eastern European revolutions; THE EAST EUROPEAN REVOLUTIONS IN WORLD HISTORY; REVOLUTION, REFORM OR COUNTER-REVOLUTION?-FROM ASAHI-SHINBUN NEWS REPORTS; THE POPULAR IMAGE OF 'REVOLUTION' IN JAPAN-VIOLENT AND BLOODY MASS REVOLT; THE DOMINANT IMAGE OF 'REVOLUTION' IN JAPANESE ACADEMIC CIRCLES-FROM 'BOURGEOIS DEMOCRATIC' TO 'PROLETARIAN SOCIALIST' REVOLUTION; THE 'CIVIL REVOLUTION' SCHOOL AND ITS REACTIONIMPACTS ON PARTY POLITICS-FROM THE 'SP-CGP-DSP' BLOC TO THE 'LDP-CGP-DSP'; THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SPJ TO A SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY; THE FALL OF THE COMINTERN'S TRADITION AND THE ISOLATION OF THE JCP; CRISIS? POSSIBILITY FOR REBIRTH? OR THE END OF SOCIALISM?-ARGUMENTS AMONG LEFT INTELLECTUALS; THE TRIUMPH OF CAPITALISM?'-LESSONS FOR JAPANESE BUSINESS LEADERS; THE MINIMUM SOCIALIST ORIENTATION IN JAPAN AND THE MAXIMUM 'LEARNING FROM JAPAN' BOOM IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION AND EASTERN EUROPE; 'A BIG BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY FOR JAPANESE'-ECONOMY-CENTRED PERCEPTION'A FIRE ACROSS THE SEA'-PASSIVE AND DREAMLESS PERCEPTION; 11 Yellow Athena: the Japanese model and the East European revolution; THE ARGUMENT; FOOTNOTES TO HEGEL; FROM KOJEVE TO FUKUYAMA; JAPAN AND HEGEL; YELLOW ATHENA; CIVIL SOCIETY IN HEGELIAN PERSPECTIVE; THE LIMITS OF ENGLISH THOUGHT; NOTES; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The end of the Cold War years has brought tumultuous change. Revolutionary changes, however, are not new to the Japanese.