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The Dilemmas of Growth in Prewar Japan

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Published:
Mar 8, 2015
1972
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538
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5 x 8 in.

The sixth and final volume in the series published for the Conference on Modern Japan reviews the political, economic and foreign policy problems faced by Japan during the 1930’s and 鈥40’s. James Morley’s introductory chapter, 鈥淐hoice and Consequence,鈥 and Edwin O. Reisehauer’s conclusion. 鈥淲hat Went Wrong?鈥 define the context of the discussion.

Contents: 鈥淔oreword,鈥 John Whitney Hall. 1. 鈥淚ntroduction: Choice and Consequence,鈥 James William Morley. PART ONE: Political and Military. II. 鈥淭he Bureaucracy as a Political Force, 1920-45,鈥 Robert M. Spaulding, Jr. III. 鈥淩etrogression in Japan’s Foreign Policy Decision-Making Process,鈥 Chihiro Hosoya. IV. 鈥淭he Failure of Military Expansionism,鈥 Akira Iriye. V. 鈥淭he Radical Left and the Failure of Communism,鈥 George M. Beekmann. PART TWO: Economic and Social. VI. 鈥淩ural Origins of Japanese Fascism,鈥 R. P. Dore and Tsutomu Ouchi. VII. 鈥淭he Economic Muddle of the 192O’s,鈥 Hugh I. Patrick. VIII. 鈥淏ig Business and Politics in Prewar Japan,鈥 Arthur E. Tiedemann. PART THREE: Intellectual. IX. 鈥淚ntellectuals as Visionaries of the New Asian Order,鈥 James B. Crowley. X. 鈥淣akano Seigo and the Spirit of the Meiji Restoration in Twentieth- Century Japan,鈥 Tetsuo Najita. XI. 鈥淥yama Ikuo and the Search for Democracy,鈥 Peter Duus. PART FOUR: Comparisons and Conclusions. XII. 鈥淛apan and Germany in the Interwar Period,鈥 Kentaro Hayashi. XIII. 鈥淲hat Went Wrong?鈥 Edwin O. Reischauer. Index.

Originally published in 1972.

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