TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kitaoka,Shinichi
AU  - Eldridge,Robert D.
AU  - Leonard,Graham
TI  - The political history of modern Japan: foreign relations and domestic politics 
SN  - 9781138337671
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Oxon
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Japan
KW  - Diplomatic relations
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1868-
KW  - Foreign relations
N1  - "Originally published by Yuhikaku Publishing Co., Ltd in 2011 and 2017 English translation arranged with Yuhikaku Publishing Co., Ltd through Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture (JPIC)"--T.p. verso
N2  - "Spanning the 130-year period between the end of the Tokugawa Era and the end of the Cold War, this book introduces students to the formation, collapse, and rebirth of the modern Japanese state. It demonstrates how, faced with foreign threats, Japan developed a new governing structure to deal with these challenges and in turn gradually shaped its international environment. Had Japan been a self-sufficient power, like the United States, it is unlikely that external relations would have exercised such great control over the nation. And, if it were a smaller country, it may have been completely pressured from the outside and could not have influenced the global stage on its own. For better or worse therefore, this book argues, Japan was neither too large nor too small."--
ER  -