Empire and Constitution in Modern Japan by Junji Banno
Since the beginning of the Meiji period when Japan evolved into a modern and powerful nation-state, ideas of empire and constitution imbued Japanese rule and progress. In Empire and Constitution in Modern Japan, Junji Banno expertly analyses how these conflicting concepts operated together in Japan from 1868 until 1937.
By ‘empire’, Banno means the Japanese impetus to create its own empire; by ‘constitution’, he identifies Japanese efforts to create a constitutional government. In this book, Banno discusses the complicated relationship between these two concepts, ranging from incompatibility in some periods to symbiosis in others. Furthermore, understanding the complex and competing nature of these ideals, he persuasively reasons, is key to our understanding of why Japan and China went to war in 1937, leading to Pearl Harbor just four years later.
Translated by eminent scholar Arthur Stockwin, Banno’s highly accessible account of the dynamics of pre-war Japanese political history provides an engaging survey of imperialism and constitutionalism in modern Japan. It will be of vital importance to all scholars of modern Japanese history.
-
The Inheritance of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
-
The Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke Reader
-
Japanese Medical Lives in Transformation
-
Contesting Memorial Spaces of Japan's Empire
-
Japan's Empire of Birds
-
A History of Economic Thought in Japan
-
Transwar Asia
-
Gender, Culture, and Disaster in Post-3.11 Japan
-
Haruki Murakami and the Search for Self-Therapy
-
The Translocal Island of Okinawa
-
Postwar Emigration to South America from Japan and the Ryukyu Islands
-
Japan's Occupation of Java in the Second World War
-
The Uses of Literature in Modern Japan
-
Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan
-
The Tale of Genji through Contemporary Manga
-
Imperial Japan and Defeat in the Second World War
-
The History of Japanese Psychology
-
Gathering for Tea in Modern Japan
-
Engineering Asia
-
Overcoming Empire in Post-Imperial East Asia
-
Selected Essays by Fukuzawa Yukichi
-
The China Problem in Postwar Japan
-
Japan’s Occupation of Java in the Second World War
-
The Origins of the Modern Japanese Bureaucracy
-
Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism
-
Chronicling Westerners in Nineteenth-Century East Asia
-
Japan's Postwar Military and Civil Society
-
Mass Media, Consumerism and National Identity in Postwar Japan
-
Christianity and Imperialism in Modern Japan
-
Contemporary Sino-Japanese Relations on Screen
-
Politics and Power in 20th-Century Japan: The Reminiscences of Miyazawa Kiichi
-
Japanese Taiwan
-
Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan
-
Debating Otaku in Contemporary Japan
-
The Abe Experiment and the Future of Japan
-
Japan's Modern History, 1857-1937
-
The Political Economy of Japanese Society: Volume 2: Internationalization and Domestic Issues
-
The Establishment of the Japanese Constitutional System
-
The Political Economy of Japanese Society: Volume 1: The State or the Market?
This is a valuable translation of a work that represents a lifetime of research by a senior Japanese scholar exploring the political history of imperial Japan. Banno organizes his narrative around a tension between periods of expansive imperialism and periods of constitutional development and presents many fascinating details and documents along the way. -- Professor Luke Roberts, University of California
Junji Banno was a Professor of History at the Institute of Social Science of Tokyo University, Japan. Between 1971 and 2012 he published numerous books on modern Japanese history, three of which have been translated into English: The Establishment of the Japanese Constitutional System (1992), Democracy in Pre-War Japan (2001), and Japan's Modern History, 1857-1937 (2014). Junji Banno sadly passed away in 2020.
Arthur Stockwin is Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College, University of Oxford, UK. He is the author of Dynamic and Immobilist Politics in Japan (1988), Dictionary of the Modern Politics of Japan (2003), and Governing Japan (4th ed. 2008). In 2004 he was presented with The Order of the Rising Sun on behalf of the Emperor of Japan for his efforts to promote Japanese studies in the United Kingdom, and in 2009 was awarded the Order of the British Empire for services to academic excellence.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781350136212 |
| ISBN 10 | 1350136212 |
| Title | Empire and Constitution in Modern Japan |
| Author | Junji Banno |
| Series | Soas Studies In Modern And Contemporary Japan |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2021-06-03 |
| Number of pages | 186 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |