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War, Revolution and Japan (Paperback)
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"Revolution was still in the air in Berlin (the venue for the
triennial conference of the European Association of Japanese
Studies) in September 1991", notes the editor, Ian Neary, in his
introduction to these papers from the first post-Cold War
international Japanese Studies conference. "The previous month an
attempted coup by army officers in Moscow had seemed poised to
reverse the liberalization of the Soviet Union. Its failure led to
the rapid unravelling of the Soviet state, a process whose
consequences are still not at all clear. What is clear and what was
commonly felt, is that we had been witnessing, even participating
in a series of events at least as important for Russia and the
wider world as was the Meiji Ishin (the Imperial Restoration of
1868) for Japan and world history". The historical range of the
papers, including contributions from Eastern European scholars, is
very broad; from a discussion of the Tokugawa view of Japan's place
in the world to the relevance of the "Japanese model" for the
future development of Eastern Europe. Among the other papers are an
examination of how the 1989 revolutions in Eastern Europe were
viewed in Japan, Russian interpretations of th
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