Power and Dissent in Imperial Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Power and Dissent in Imperial Japan write by Hiromi Sasamoto-Collins. This book was released on 2013. Power and Dissent in Imperial Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Power and Dissent in Imperial Japan
Power and Dissent in Imperial Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Power and Dissent in Imperial Japan write by H. Sasamoto-Collins. This book was released on 2013. Power and Dissent in Imperial Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume examines the careers and intellectual positions of three prominent Japanese 'dissidents' in the later Imperial period - Minobe Tatsukichi, Sakai Toshihiko and Saito Takao - as individual responses to the new forms of authority that appeared after the Meiji Restoration of 1868. The principles to which each adhered contributed to the new ideas about authority and the individual in post-Restoration Japan. They also remain fundamental in today's Japanese polity and society. The study reaffirms the serious limitations of the pre-war Japanese political system, its structural and institutional problems, and deep-rooted ambivalence about democratic change.
Race and Migration in Imperial Japan
Race and Migration in Imperial Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Race and Migration in Imperial Japan write by Michael Weiner. This book was released on 2013-09-27. Race and Migration in Imperial Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A high degree of cultural and racial homogeneity has long been associated with Japan, with its political discourse and with the lexicon of post-war Japanese scholarship. This book examines underlying assumptions. The author provides an analysis of racial discourse in Japan, its articulation and re-articulation over the past century, against the background of labour migration from the colonial periphery. He deconstructs the myth of a `Japanese race'. Michael Weiner pursues a second major theme of colonial migration; its causes and consequences. Rather than merely identifying the `push factors', the analysis focuses on the more dynamic `pull factors' that determined immigrant destinations. Similarly, rather than focusing upon the immigrant, the author examines the structural need for low-cost temporary labour that was filled by Korean immigrants.
Modern Japan: A Very Short Introduction
Modern Japan: A Very Short Introduction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modern Japan: A Very Short Introduction write by Christopher Goto-Jones. This book was released on 2009-04-23. Modern Japan: A Very Short Introduction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Japan is arguably today's most successful industrial economy, combining almost unprecedented affluence with social stability and apparent harmony. Japanese goods and cultural products are consumed all over the world, ranging from animated movies and computer games all the way through to cars, semiconductors, and management techniques. In many ways, Japan is an icon of the modern world, and yet it remains something of an enigma to many, who see it as a confusing montage of the alien and the familiar, the ancient and modern. The aim of this Very Short Introduction is to explode the myths and explore the reality of modern Japan - by taking a concise look at its history, economy, politics, and culture. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Nothingness in the Heart of Empire
Nothingness in the Heart of Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nothingness in the Heart of Empire write by Harumi Osaki. This book was released on 2019-02-28. Nothingness in the Heart of Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reveals the complicity between the Kyoto School’s moral and political philosophy, based on the school’s founder Nishida Kitarō’s metaphysics of nothingness, and Japanese imperialism. In the field of philosophy, the common view of philosophy as an essentially Western discipline persists even today, while non-Western philosophy tends to be undervalued and not investigated seriously. In the field of Japanese studies, in turn, research on Japanese philosophy tends to be reduced to a matter of projecting existing stereotypes of alleged Japanese cultural uniqueness through the reading of texts. In Nothingness in the Heart of Empire, Harumi Osaki resists both these tendencies. She closely interprets the wartime discourses of the Kyoto School, a group of modern Japanese philosophers who drew upon East Asian traditions as well as Western philosophy. Her book lucidly delves into the non-Western forms of rationality articulated in such discourses, and reveals the problems inherent in them as the result of these philosophers’ engagements in Japan’s wartime situation, without cloaking these problems under the pretense of “Japanese cultural uniqueness.” In addition, in a manner reminiscent of the controversy surrounding Martin Heidegger’s involvement with Nazi Germany, the book elucidates the political implications of the morality upheld by the Kyoto School and its underlying metaphysics. As such, this book urges dialogue beyond the divide between Western and non-Western philosophies, and beyond the separation between “lofty” philosophy and “common” politics. Harumi Osaki is an independent scholar who received her PhD in contemporary French thought from Hitotsubashi University in 2003 and went on to complete a second doctorate in Japanese philosophy from McGill University in 2016.
