Japan in Crisis

by Silberman, Bernard S.; Harootunian, H. D.; Bernstein, Gail; Crowley, James B.; Iriye, Akira

• ISBN13: 9780939512973
• ISBN10: 0939512971
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: UNIV OF MICHIGAN PR

Table of Contents

Foreword	v
Introduction: A Sense of an Ending and the Problem of Taisho	3	(26)
Harry D. Harootunian
Some Reflections on Idealism in the Political Thought of Yoshino Sakuzo	29	(38)
Tetsuo Najita
A Note on the Political Thought of Natsume Soseki in His Later Years	67	(19)
Takayoshi Matsuo
Kawakami Hajime: A Japanese Marxist in Search of the Way	86	(24)
Gail Bernstein
Between Politics and Culture: Authority and the Ambiguities of Intellectual Choice in Imperial Japan	110	(46)
H. D. Harootunian
Aspects of the Proletarian Literary Movement in Japan	156	(27)
Yoshio Iwamoto
The Bureaucratic Role in Japan, 1900-1945: The Bureaucrat as Politician	183	(34)
Bernard S. Silberman
Taisho Democracy as the Pre-Stage for Japanese Militarism	217	(20)
Shuichi Kato
The Failure of Economic Expansion: 1918-1931	237	(33)
Akira Iriye
A New Asian Order: Some Notes on Prewar Japanese Nationalism	270	(29)
James B. Crowley
The Japanese Economy, 1911-1930: Concentration, Conflicts, and Crises	299	(30)
Kozo Yamamura
Incentives, Productivity Gaps, and Agricultural Growth Rates in Prewar Japan, Taiwan and Korea	329	(45)
James I. Nakamura
The Origins of Tenant Unrest	374	(24)
Ann Waswo
Japanese Industrial Relations at the Crossroads: The Great Noda Strike of 1927-1928	398	(39)
George O. Totten
Conclusion: Taisho Japan and the Crisis of Secularism	437	(18)
Bernard S. Silberman
Index	455