Mutsu Munemitsu and His Time by Okazaki Hisahiko

Originally published in Japan by Yuhikaku Publishing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, in 20 English translation arranged with Yuhikaku Publishing Co., Ltd., through Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture (JPIC) English translation copyright © Robert D. ‘Nihon seijishi: gaikō to kenryoku, zōhoban’ by Kitaoka Shinichi Copyright © Kitaoka Shinichi, 2011, 2017 All rights reserved.

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Eldridge with Graham Leonardįirst published 2018 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2018 Kitaoka Shinichi The right of Kitaoka Shinichi to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Kitaoka Shinichi is President of Japan International Cooperation Agency and Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo and Rikkyo University, Japan.įoreign Relations and Domestic Politics Kitaoka Shinichi This book, written by one of Japan’s leading experts on Japan’s political history, will be an essential resource for students of Japanese modern history and politics. Changes in the international order and the end of the Cold War. Party Politics and International Cooperation. The First Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars. Covering the major events, actors, and institutions of Japan’s modern history, the key themes discussed include: īuilding the Meiji state and Constitution. For better or worse therefore, this book argues, Japan was neither too large nor too small. 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. Had Japan been a selfsufficient power, like the United States, it is unlikely that external relations would have exercised such great control over the nation.

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. Spanning the 130-year period between the end of the Tokugawa Era and the end of the Cold War, this book introduces readers to the formation, collapse, and rebirth of the modern Japanese state.

Mutsu Munemitsu and His Time by Okazaki Hisahiko