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Author:   Masato Kimura ,  Tosh Minohara
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.420kg
ISBN:  

9781442612341

ISBN 10:   1442612347
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   18 March 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I: Economics, Culture, Society and Identity Chapter 1: Zaikai’s Perception of and Orientation to the United States - Masato Kimura (Shibusawa Eiichi Memorial Foundation) Chapter 2: Cultural Internationalism and Japan’s Wartime Empire: The Turns of the Kokusai Bunka Shinkōkai - Jessamyn R. Abel (Pennsylvania State University) Chapter 3: Japanese Pan-Asianism through the Mirror of Pan-Islamism - Cemil Aydin (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Chapter 4: Emperor, Family and Modernity: The 1940 Passage of the National Eugenics Law - Sumiko Otsubo (Metropolitan State University) Part II: The Empire and Imperial Concerns Chapter 5: Strengthening and Expanding Japan through Social Work in Colonial Taiwan - Evan Dawley (U.S. Department of State) Chapter 6: Between Collaboration and Conflict: State and Society in Wartime Korea - Jun Uchida (Stanford University) Chapter 7: The Thought War: Public Diplomacy by Japan's Immigrants in the U.S. - Yuka Fujioka (Kwansei Gakuin University) Part III: High Diplomacy and the Statesmen Chapter 8: Meiji Diplomacy in the Early 1930s: Uchida Kōsai, Manchuria and Post-withdrawal Foreign Policy - Rustin Gates (Bradley University) Chapter 9: Japan’s Diplomatic Gamble for Autonomy: Rethinking Matsuoka Yōsuke’s Diplomacy - Satoshi Hattori (Osaka University) Chapter 10: Dissembling Diplomatist: Admiral Toyoda Teijirō and the Politics of Japanese Security - Peter Mauch (University of Western Sydney) Chapter 11: “No Choice but to Rise”: Togo Shigenori and Japan’s Decision for War - Tosh Minohara (Kōbe University)

Reviews

‘Tumultuous Decade is a bold rethinking, not only of Japanese history during the truly tumultuous decade of the 1930s, but also, and more broadly of what it means to do Japanese history for any period…It is historical scholarship at its very best.’ -- Jason Morgan * Japan Review vol 27:2014 *

'Tumultuous Decade is a bold rethinking, not only of Japanese history during the truly tumultuous decade of the 1930s, but also, and more broadly of what it means to do Japanese history for any period...It is historical scholarship at its very best.' -- Jason Morgan

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Masato Kimura is director of the Shibusawa Eiichi Memorial Foundation. Tosh Minohara is a professor in the Graduate School of Law at Kobe University.

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