Modern Japan: A Historical Survey
Mikiso Hane
Language: English
Pages: 608
ISBN: 0813346940
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The fifth edition of Modern Japan is updated throughout to include the latest information on Japan’s international relations, including secret diplomatic correspondence recently disclosed on WikiLeaks. This edition brings Japanese history up to date in the post 9/11 era, detailing current issues such as: the impact of the Gulf Wars on Japanese international relations, the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent nuclear accident, the recent tumultuous change of political leadership, and Japan’s current economic and global status. An updated chronological chart, list of prime ministers, and bibliography are also included.
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military—may have disagreed about the best means to bring about the new order and about some minor details in analyzing the ills of Japan, but, by and large, they all shared mystical notions about the superiority of the Japanese national character, the national polity (kokutai), and the sacredness of the imperial institution, which was the source of all values. Another idea they held in common was the necessity of stressing spiritual rather than material values. Ōkawa Shūmei (1886–1957), for
room. Moreover, until 1978, the Japanese government did not extend the kind of medical care for Korean A-bomb victims that it provided for Japanese victims. One longtime American resident of Japan noted, “No minority in the world (no minority that I know anything about) is treated more badly by a majority than the Koreans and the Chinese by the Japanese. And it makes the black-white thing in America look like kindergarten in some ways because it is so pervasive and so insidious and it’s an
Today (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), p. 59. 12. The best residential property in Tokyo cost $69,000 a square yard in 1990. A 3.3-meter-square plot in the suburb of Tokyo that cost 39 cents in 1927 cost $92,000 in 1990, a 236,000 percent increase. 13. Residential land prices in Tokyo in 1990 were estimated to be eighty-nine times higher than those in New York. Commercial space was costlier still. A square yard of commercial space in Tokyo cost $210,000 in 1990. This means a
Reflection in the Consciousness of the Self (Nishida), 238 Inukai Tsuyoshi, 172, 201, 204, 239, 257, 265 assassination of, 252–253, 254–255, 266, 271 Iraq, 396, 407, 499 Ishihara Shintarō, 408, 494, 495 Ishiwara Kanji, 258, 266 Itagaki Seishirō, 201, 258, 266, 294, 367 Itagaki Taisuke, 83, 89, 114, 119, 120, 164, 171 assassin attack on, 126 popular rights movement and, 121–122 Itami Jūzō, 443, 487 Itō Hirobumi, 70, 75, 83, 86, 89, 129, 166, 175, 181 assassination of, 188 cabinet and
destroyed the Mongol fleet. Between 1333 and 1336, the imperial court led by Emperor Godaigo managed to regain power briefly with the assistance of certain disaffected military chiefs. But in 1336, one of these chiefs, Ashikaga Takauji (a relative of the Hōjō; 1305–1358), decided to take power himself; it was then that he drove the emperor out of Kyoto and established his own Bakufu. Godaigo fled south to the mountains of the Kii Peninsula, while Ashikaga placed another member of the imperial