The political history of modern Japan : foreign relations and domestic politics / Kitaoka Shinichi ; translated by Robert D. Eldridge with Graham Leonard.

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Kitaoka, Shinichi [author]

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TextLanguage: English Original language: Japanese Publication details: Oxon : Routledge, 2018.ISBN:

9781138337671

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Nihon seijishi. Japanese

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Summary: "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."--

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"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.

"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."--

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