Power and Dissent in Imperial Japan: Three Forms of Political Engagement: 123 - Rilegato

Sasamoto-collins, Hiromi

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ISBN 10: 8776941175 ISBN 13: 9788776941178

Casa editrice: Nordic Inst of Asian Studies, 2013

Riassunto

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—the rule of law, socialist egalitarianism, and representative government—contributed to the new ideas about authority and the individual in post-Restoration Japan. They also remain fundamental (at least in theory) 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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Dr Hiromi Sasamoto-Collins is a former lecturer in modern Japanese history at Durham University, and is currently a tutor in Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Nordic Inst of Asian Studies
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 8776941175
• ISBN 13: 9788776941178
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 312