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Making Waves - Politics, Propaganda, and the Emergence of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1868-1922 (Hardcover, Twenty-Third)
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Making Waves - Politics, Propaganda, and the Emergence of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1868-1922 (Hardcover, Twenty-Third)
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This book explores the political emergence of the Imperial Japanese
Navy between 1868 and 1922. It fundamentally challenges the popular
notion that the navy was a 'silent, ' apolitical service. Politics,
particularly budgetary politics, became the primary domestic focus
- if not the overriding preoccupation - of Japan's admirals in the
prewar period. This study convincingly demonstrates that as the
Japanese polity broadened after 1890, navy leaders expanded their
political activities to secure appropriations commensurate with the
creation of a world-class blue-water fleet. The navy's
sophisticated political efforts included lobbying oligarchs,
coercing cabinet ministers, forging alliances with political
parties, occupying overseas territuries, conducting
well-orchestrated naval pageants, and launching spirited propaganda
campaigns. These efforts succeeded: by 1921 naval expenditures
equaled nearly 32 percent of the country's total budget, making
Japan the world's third-largest maritime power. The navy, as this
book details, made waves at sea and on shore, and in doing so
significantly altered the state, society, politics, and empire in
prewar Japan
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