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Japanese Political History Since the Meiji Restoration, 1868-2000

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  • © 2001

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  1. Richard Sims
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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. The Meiji Renovation

    • Richard Sims
    Pages 1-39

  3. The Consolidation of the Meiji State and the Growth of Political Opposition, 1878–90

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    Pages 40-68

  4. The Constitutional Experiment and the Beginning of Compromise Politics, 1890–1905

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    Pages 69-92

  5. Political Party Consolidation, Oligarchic Reaction and the Emergence of New Forces, 1905–18

    • Richard Sims
    Pages 93-122

  6. Party Cabinets, Radical Movements and the Collapse of Taisho Democracy, 1918–32

    • Richard Sims
    Pages 123-178

  7. The Pursuit of Greater National Unity and the War State, 1932–45

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    Pages 179-237

  8. The Post-War Reshaping of Japanese Politics, 1945–52

    • Richard Sims
    Pages 238-265

  9. The ‘1955 System’ and the Era of L. D. P. Dominance, 1952–93

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    Pages 266-343

  10. The Shake-Up of Japanese Politics, 1993–2000

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    Pages 344-365

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 366-395
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Japanese Political History Since the Meiji Restoration, 1868-2000 explores, through a combination of narrative and analysis, the changes in the political process which lay behind Japan's transformation into a modern nation state; its successive turn toward militarism, fascism, and the Pacific War; and the imposition of a fully democratic constitution. Sims examines closely such central topics as the Meiji renovation, samurai modernisers, the rise of liberal political parties, the Meiji constitution, 'Taisho democracy', the wartime changes in the political system, postwar reforms and the 'reverse course', four decades of Liberal Democratic rule, and the shake-up of Japanese politics during the 1990s. No other book has covered Japanese political history over the entire period since 1868 in such detail, and the present volume aims to fill the gap between the various general histories of modern Japan and the ever-increasing monographic literature.

About the author

RICHARD SIMS has taught modern Japanese history at the School of Oriental and African Studies since 1966. His previous books include Modern Japan (1973) and French Policy towards the Bakufu and Meiji Japan, 1854-1895 (1998).

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