Modern Japan: A Social and Political History (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies)
Language: English
Pages: 330
ISBN: 1138780855
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
This thoroughly revised and updated third edition of Modern Japan provides a concise and fascinating introduction to the social, cultural and political history of modern Japan. Ranging from the Tokugawa period to the present day, Tipton links everyday lives with major historical developments, charting the country’s evolution into a modernized, economic and political world power.
Drawing on the latest research, the book features new material on the global financial crisis, the Fukushima nuclear disaster and continuing political instability. While retaining analysis of women's issues, minorities and popular culture, this third edition's expanded coverage of Japan's role in the Second World War, life in the empire and the history of science, medicine and technology contributes to a sense of the complexity and diversity of modern Japan.
Including an updated chronology, glossary and guide to further reading, as well as new maps and illustrations to help students to engage directly with the subject matter, this highly accessible and comprehensive textbook is an essential resource for students, scholars and teachers of Japanese history, politics, culture and society.
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Korean labour activists played important roles in the JCP. They were even less successful than their Japanese counterparts at organizing Korean workers into unions, however. Besides facing harassment by governmental authorities, they faced difficulties in the very nature of Korean workers themselves. Korean immigrants were mostly unskilled peasants made landless by Japanese colonial policies and lured by promises of a better life by Japanese companies seeking cheap labour. Textile and mining
population had to turn to employment in low-productivity retail shops and services. These economic conditions aroused government officials’ concern about resources to supply Japan’s ever-increasing population, especially after the possibility of emigration to the United States ended with the passage of the Immigration Act of 1924. While Meiji governments had encouraged a large population because it was equated with national strength, Japanese governments of the 1920s, like others throughout the
the foundations for modern developments. Were the Japanese economy to collapse sometime in the future, perhaps we would see a return to the image of backwardness and rigidity. At present, however, Conrad Totman’s preferred term ‘integral bureaucracy’ indicates more positive evaluations of Japan’s past. It suggests the early modern features of the Tokugawa period by shifting attention to the important role played by merchants as well as the samurai in Tokugawa society. Merchants had arisen as a
in compulsory labour service in factories or on farms. The government lowered the age of deferment from military service for students to 20. In October 70,000 teachers, parents and younger students gathered in Meiji Garden Stadium in Tokyo to bid farewell to 25,000 mobilized students. The following year, despite drafting men from the colonies, the labour shortage was so severe that the government began conscripting women for war work too. Nevertheless, the home-centred conception of women’s role
jobs and marriage partners that may have reinforced a common sense of guilt for having survived. This guilt underlay many survivors’ ambivalence towards the establishment of the Peace Dome in Hiroshima, towards the peace movement, and towards Hiroshima’s rebuilding and prosperity. The terrifying atomic bombings and the shattering announcement of surrender thus marked in many senses the end of an era, but not one that could simply be forgotten, despite attempts to do so. Moreover, Saito- Mutsuo’s