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Shiga Shigetaka was a pioneering advocate of the preservation of Japan's cultural identity in the face of increasing pressure from the west. This book presents a realistic picture of Shiga's beliefs and thus gain insight into modern Japanese intellectual history.
The 'High Treason Incident' rocked Japanese society between 1910
and 1911, when police discovered that a group of anarchists and
socialists were plotting to assassinate the Emperor Meiji.
Following a trial held in camera, twelve of the so-called
conspirators were hanged, but while the executions officially
brought an end to the incident, they were only the initial outcome
as the state became increasingly paranoid about national
ideological cohesion. In response it deployed an array of new
technologies of integration and surveillance, and the subsequent
repression affected not only political movements, but the whole
cultural sphere. This book shows the far reaching impact of the
high treason incident for Japanese politics and society, and the
subsequent course of Japanese history. Taking an interdisciplinary
and global approach, it demonstrates how the incident transformed
modern Japan in numerous and unexpected ways, and sheds light on
the response of authoritarian states to radical democratic
opposition movements elsewhere. The contributors examine the
effects of the incident on Japanese history, literature, politics
and society, as well as its points of intersection with broader
questions of anarchism, colonialism, gender and governmentality, to
underline its historical and contemporary significance. With
chapters by leading Western and Japanese scholars, and drawing on
newly available primary sources, this book is a timely and relevant
study that will be of great interest to students and scholars
working in the fields of Japanese history, Japanese politics,
Japanese studies, as well as those interested in the history of
social movements.
Shiga Shigetaka was a pioneering advocate of the preservation of
Japan's cultural identity in the face of increasing pressure from
the west. This book presents a realistic picture of Shiga's beliefs
and thus gain insight into modern Japanese intellectual history.
The 'High Treason Incident' rocked Japanese society between 1910
and 1911, when police discovered that a group of anarchists and
socialists were plotting to assassinate the Emperor Meiji.
Following a trial held in camera, twelve of the so-called
conspirators were hanged, but while the executions officially
brought an end to the incident, they were only the initial outcome
as the state became increasingly paranoid about national
ideological cohesion. In response it deployed an array of new
technologies of integration and surveillance, and the subsequent
repression affected not only political movements, but the whole
cultural sphere. This book shows the far reaching impact of the
high treason incident for Japanese politics and society, and the
subsequent course of Japanese history. Taking an interdisciplinary
and global approach, it demonstrates how the incident transformed
modern Japan in numerous and unexpected ways, and sheds light on
the response of authoritarian states to radical democratic
opposition movements elsewhere. The contributors examine the
effects of the incident on Japanese history, literature, politics
and society, as well as its points of intersection with broader
questions of anarchism, colonialism, gender and governmentality, to
underline its historical and contemporary significance. With
chapters by leading Western and Japanese scholars, and drawing on
newly available primary sources, this book is a timely and relevant
study that will be of great interest to students and scholars
working in the fields of Japanese history, Japanese politics,
Japanese studies, as well as those interested in the history of
social movements.
Hawai'i at the Crossroads tells the story of Hawai'i's role in the
emergence of Japanese cultural and political internationalism
during the interwar period. Following World War I, Japan became an
important global power and Hawai'i Japanese represented its largest
and most significant emigrant group. During the 1920s and 1930s,
Hawai'i's Japanese American population provided Japan with a
welcome opportunity to expand its international and intercultural
contacts. This volume, based on papers presented at the 2001
Crossroads Conference by scholars from the U.S., Japan, and
Australia, explores U.S.-Japanese conflict and cooperation in
Hawai'i--truly the crossroads of relations between the two
countries prior to the Pacific War. From the 1880s to 1924, 180,000
Japanese emigrants arrived in the U.S. A little less than half of
the original arrivals settled in Hawai'i; by 1900 they constituted
the largest ethnic group in the Islands, making them of special
interest to Tokyo. Even after its withdrawal from the League of
Nations in 1933, Japan viewed Hawai'i as a largely sympathetic and
supportive ally. The Islands represented Japan's best opportunity
to explain itself to the U.S.; here American and Japanese
diplomats, official and unofficial, could work to resolve the
growing tension between their two countries. While hopes on both
sides of the Pacific were shattered by the attack on Pearl Harbor,
the Japan-Hawai'i connection underlying not a few of them remains
important, informative, and above all compelling. Its further
exploration provided the rationale for the Crossroads Conference
and the essays compiled here.
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