Tumultuous decade
Subtitle: empire, society, and diplomacy in 1930s Japan
By: edited by Masato Kimura and Tosh Minohara
Series: Japan and global society; Japan and global society series
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781442643864; 9781442612341
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Foreign relations; Politics and government; Social conditions; Economic conditions; Japanese National characteristics; Relations extérieures; Politique et gouvernement; Conditions sociales; Conditions économiques; Japonais
Description: "The 1930s was a dark period in international affairs. The Great Depression affected the economic and social circumstances of the world's major powers, contributing to armed conflicts such as the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War. This volume focuses exclusively on Japan, which witnessed a flurry of progressive activities in this period, activities which served both domestic and international society during the "tumultuous decade."  Featuring an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars, Tumultuous Decade examines Japanese domestic and foreign affairs between 1931 and 1941. It looks at Japan in the context of changing approaches to global governance, the rise of the League of Nations, and attempts to understand the Japanese worldview as it stood in the 1930s, a crucial period for Japan and the wider world. The editors argue that, like many other emerging powers at the time, Japan experienced a national identity crisis during this period and that this crisis is what ultimately precipitated Japan's role in the Second World War as well as the global order that took shape in its aftermath."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1.; title: Economics, culture, society and identity.; title: The Zaikai's perception of and orientation towards the United States in the 1930s  -- Masato Kimura; title: Cultural internationalism and Japan's wartime empire : the turns of the Kokusai Bunka Shinkōkai  -- Jessamyn R. Abel; title: Japanese pan-Asianism through the mirror of pan-Islamism  -- Cemil Aydin; title: Emperor, family and modernity : the passage of the 1940 national eugenics law  -- Sumiko Otsubo -- pt. 2.; title: The empire and imperial concerns.; title: Strengthening and expanding Japan through social work in colonial Taiwan  -- Evan Dawley; title: Between collaboration and conflict : state and society in wartime Korea  -- Jun Uchida; title: The thought war : public diplomacy by Japan's immigrants in the United States  -- Yuka Fujioka -- pt. 3.; title: High diplomacy and the statesmen.; title: Meiji diplomacy in the early 1930s : Uchida Kōsai, Manchuria, and post-withdrawal foreign policy  -- Rustin Gates; title: Japan's diplomatic gamble for autonomy : rethinking Matsuoka Yōsuke's diplomacy  -- Satoshi Hattori; title: Dissembling diplomatist : Admiral Toyoda Teijirō and the politics of Japanese security  -- Peter Mauch; title: "No choice but to rise" : Tōgō Shigenori and Japan's decision for war -- Tosh Minohara.