The Autobiography of Ozaki Yukio
Subtitle: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in Japan.
Contributors: Marius B. Jansen (Foreword); Fujiko Hara (Translator)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: May 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780691050959
Subjects: Biography: general; Constitution: government & the state; World history: from c 1900 -; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Japan - History - 20th Century; History; Biography / Autobiography; History: World; Asia - Japan; Historical - General; Political; Asian and Asian American Studies; History / Japan; Political Science and International Relations; 1858-1954; 1868-1912; Biography; Japan; Ozaki, Yukio,; Politics and government; Statesmen
First sentence: IN SETTING OUT these recollections of Japanese constitutional government, it is not my intention to write an academic study.
Description: "Ozaki Yukio, who was returned to his seat in the Japanese Diet twenty-five times, served in that body from its inception in 1890 to 1953. He was several times a cabinet member and, for ten years, mayor of Tokyo. A strong advocate of representative government, he both witnessed and propelled Japan's transformation from a late feudal society to a modern state.

His autobiography, available in English for the first time, gives an insider's account of key episodes and leaders over seven decades of Japanese history."--BOOK JACKET.