Download or read book How the Japanese Became Foreign to Themselves written by Patrick Hein and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2009 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of whether Arendt's distinction of the private, public and society can be applied to the Japanese cultural context will be examined. It will be argued that repressed needs for equality, plurality and independence have made their way back through increased civil political participation and that this process is driven by the renaissance of the pre-Meiji Samurai principle of ethical individualism.
Download or read book Japanese Foreign Policy 1869 1942 written by Ian Nish and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. This is Volume XI of the Foreign Policies of the Great Powers eleven part series and focuses on the policies of the Japanese, from 1869 to 1942. It includes sections on the Iwakura period, the Mutsu period, Aoki, Komura, Kato, Ishi, Shidehara, Tanaka, Uchida, Hirota, Konoe and ending with the Matsuoka period in 1941.
Download or read book Japanese Foreign Policy 1869 1942 written by Akira Iriye and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foreign Workers and Law Enforcement in Japan written by Wolfgang Herbert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a detailed study of the extent to which an increased influx of foreign workers is a threat to law and order in the context of the data-generating process of police statistics and the media coverage of "crimes" committed by foreigners. It shows that a general mood in which foreign workers are viewed as potential danger to Japanese society "protects" the criminalization of foreign "illegal" migrant workers. The work begins by tracing the upsurge of "illegal" foreign workers in Japan. It builds a social profile of these "illegals" showing that because of fear of expulsion, lack of knowledge of the law and over-dependence on employer and workplace, their ability to avail themselves off the protection of the law is neglible, and they are always at risk of becoming victims to multiple exploitation.
Download or read book United Empire written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Japan in International Politics written by Thomas U. Berger and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How have shifts in both the international environment and domestic politics affected the trajectory of Japanese foreign policy? Does it still make sense to depict Japan as passive and reactive, or have the country's leaders become strategic and proactive? This book presents a nuanced picture of Japanese foreign policy, emphasizing the ways in which slow, adaptive changes, informed by pragmatic liberalism, have served the national interest.
Download or read book The Business of Japanese Foreign Aid written by Marie Soderberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan is now the biggest donor of Official Development Assistance (ODA) throughout the world. This study takes a new approach to this subject by focusing on the procedures, methodologies and business mechanisms at the implementation level that influence the process of policy-making in Tokyo. It is also the first study to explore the process of receiving aid, arguing that many of the recipient countries exert considerable influence over the distribution of Japanese foreign aid.
Download or read book Foreign Images and Experiences of Japan written by William McOmie and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in a three-volume series, Volume 1 begins with the earliest written reports from China in the first century AD and ends with a survey of Dutch reports from 1841, which marks the point when ‘Japan had been amply described in all major respects’, and at a time when it began to be perceived as a less remote and more important country in Western eyes ‘yet still emphatically closed to all foreign trade except that of the Dutch and the Chinese’. Furthermore, in little more than a decade later the number and variety of accounts were to increase greatly following the American, Russian and British expeditions of 1853/54 – accounts which are to form a key element of Volume 2. The Contents are divided into two parts: chronological and thematic. Part I is devoted to a discussion and analysis of the dominant views and images of Japan found in each historical era. It also provides brief biographical data about those European and American travellers to Japan whose reports are quoted in Part II, including some sixty eyewitness accounts, along with concise summaries and commentaries. Compared to previous surveys, a significant aspect of this volume is the greater amount of biographical information regarding the leading European visitors to Japan that is provided, together with a concise analysis and evaluation of their original accounts by both contemporary and more recent critics. As a further innovation, excerpts from the reports of Russian visitors to Japan, including Adam Laxman and V.M.Golvnin are quoted for the first time alongside those of West European and American accounts. The volume is supported by a significant Glossary and Bibliography, as well as Subject and Name/Place Indexes.
Download or read book International Law and Japanese Sovereignty written by Douglas Howland and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a nation become a great power? A global order was emerging in the nineteenth century, one in which all nations were included. This book explores the multiple legal grounds of Meiji Japan's assertion of sovereign statehood within that order: natural law, treaty law, international administrative law, and the laws of war. Contrary to arguments that Japan was victimized by 'unequal' treaties, or that Japan was required to meet a 'standard of civilization' before it could participate in international society, Howland argues that the Westernizing Japanese state was a player from the start. In the midst of contradictions between law and imperialism, Japan expressed state will and legal acumen as an equal of the Western powers – international incidents in Japanese waters, disputes with foreign powers on Japanese territory, and the prosecution of interstate war. As a member of international administrative unions, Japan worked with fellow members to manage technical systems such as the telegraph and the post. As a member of organizations such as the International Law Association and as a leader at the Hague Peace Conferences, Japan helped to expand international law. By 1907, Japan was the first non-western state to join the ranks of the great powers.
Download or read book Opening a Window to the West written by Peter Ennals and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length study of Kōbe's Foreign Concession, Opening a Window to the West situates Kōbe within the larger pattern of globalization occurring throughout East Asia in the nineteenth century.
Download or read book Japan and the Wider World written by Akira Iriye and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Akira Iriye assesses Japan's international relations, from a Japanese perspective, in the century and a half since she ended her self-imposed isolation and resumed her place in the international community. The book is the author's own adaptation of two highly successful short studies, up to and after 1945, that he wrote for Japan. It ends with a consideration of Japan's international relations since the end of the Cold War, and her place in the world today. This is history written from within - and there could be no better interpreter of Japan to the West than this most distinguished of historians, who, himself Japanese, has long lived and taught in the United States.
Download or read book The Herald of Asia written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Japanese Foreign Policy at the Crossroads written by Yutaka Kawashima and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003-10-16 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The post–World War II paradigm that ensured security and prosperity for the Japanese people has lost much of its effectiveness. The current generation has become increasingly resentful of the prolonged economic stagnation and feels a sense of drift and uncertainty about the future of Japan's foreign policy. In J apanese Foreign Policy at the Crossroads, Yutaka Kawashima clarifies some of the defining parameters of Japan's past foreign policy and examines the challenges it currently faces, including the quagmire on the Korean Peninsula, the future of the U.S.-Japan alliance, the management of Japan-China relations, and Japan's relation with Southeast Asia. Kawashima—who, as vice minister of foreign affairs, was Japan's highest-ranking foreign service official—cautions Japan against attempts to ensure its own security and well-being outside of an international framework. He believes it is crucial that Japan work with as many like-minded countries as possible to construct a regional and international order based on shared interests and shared values. In an era of globalization, he cautions, such efforts will be crucial to maintaining global world order and ensuring civilized interaction among all states.
Download or read book Japanese Foreign Policy Today written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The US remains the leading world power, but across the Pacific, Japan has the world s second largest economy and great international economic clout. Some voices in the international arena have urged Japan to play more constructive and politically active roles in the international arena. This volume collects essays analyzing the key issues in Japan s international relations as it heads toward a new world order: the pressing global and regional issues and their domestic implications, the actors, and the major policy directions.
Download or read book The Twain Shall Meet written by Russell Watson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rudyard Kipling coined the phrase "Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet." This referenced the gulf of understanding between the British and the peoples of the Indian subcontinent. Kipling was perhaps blissfully ignorant of the falsehood he helped to fuel for in the case of Japan nothing could be further from the truth. It is self-evident how Japanese culture has significantly impacted on the world. This ranges from sushi, California and otherwise to origami and anime or judo and karate to beatniks crafting haiku Zen poetry. The reverse is also true. British diplomats had already concluded by the early 1970s that most Japanese were, in many respects, leading essentially Western lifestyles. When Melvil Dewey devised the Dewey Decimal System for classification of library books in 1876, he grouped history, geography and biography together in one section. He was acknowledging that the three are almost invariably linked together. History without geography or biography is little more than a tedious and meaningless list of dates; biography minus history has no context. Europeans had known of Japan for over two hundred years before they set foot on its shores. "People on the Island of Zipangu (Japan) have tremendous quantities of gold. The King's palace is roofed with pure gold, and his floors are paved in gold two fingers thick." So wrote the Venetian merchant Marco Polo (1254-1324). Because of his book, The Travels of Marco Polo, Europeans believed that "Zipangu" was a land of gold, and Columbus later sailed across the Atlantic in search of it." However, the first known contact with Europeans on Japanese soil had to wait until around 1542 when the Portuguese adventurer Fernao Mendez Pinto sailed to Japan from mainland Asia in search of riches. Over the next five centuries countless numbers of people headed off to Japan for reasons as varied as the individuals themselves. Some were missionaries, intent on proselytizing their faith. Others like Pinto were motivated by dreams of monetary gain. Then there were those who came purely to fulfill contracts, or who arrived by chance and ended up staying for a lifetime. There were others who never actually set foot in Japan but nevertheless impacted greatly on its history, or helped to introduce its culture to the wider world. Everybody has a story to tell, so it is said. The collated tales of nearly 200 men and women together relate the bigger picture of how Japan at first welcomed European visitors only to almost completely seal itself off from the outside world a few decades later. Compelled by the threat of naval bombardment by the United States in the mid-nineteenth century, Japan grudgingly at first, reopened its doors. Less than a decade later it embarked on an unprecedented program of modernization and development. Forty years on it had been transformed from what was essentially a feudal police state into a naval power capable of defeating the Russian fleet. The biographies of people who contributed to the history of meetings between Japan and the outside world are listed in approximately chronological order. Some have been grouped, such as with science or sports, when they are roughly contemporary in an attempt to make for a more cohesive reading experience. Cross-referencing is provided so the reader can witness the interactions and influences from contemporary figures whose stories are connected in some fashion. The book is best read in sequence. Although each story is complete in itself, people with little or no prior knowledge of Japanese history are recommended to begin at the beginning as they will find it more coherent and easier to follow. This is the second edition which includes some updates and additional information."
Download or read book Japan s National Identity and Foreign Policy written by Alexander Bukh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-10-18 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Japan's National Identity and Foreign Policy, Alexander Bukh focuses on the construction of the Japanese self using Russia as the other, examining the history of bilateral relations and comparisons between the Russian and Japanese national character.
Download or read book Foreigners in Japan written by Gopal Kshetry and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-12-20 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan began to fascinate the West after the account of Marco Polos sojourn in China. This set off an interest in the oriental world. The Portuguese, being the first, arrived in Japan in 1543 which was followed by others. The experience Japan had with Europeans put upon itself isolation for about 200 years. After the forceful opening by Mathew Perry in 1853, many Westerners again began to arrive in Japan. Later during the 1980s, there was an influx of migrant workers which become a hot topic of debate. The book throws much light onto the historical background as well as the events that lead up to the present state of affairs in relation to issues of discrimination, crimes and problems related to foreigners.
