Army, Empire and Politics in Meiji Japan: The Three Careers of General Katsura Tar?

by Stewart Lone

Dramatic innovations in modern Japan include a mass army, overseas empire, and constitutional polity. This is the first book to link these changes in the Meiji era (1868-1912). It focuses on the life of General Katsura Taro, one of the architects of the modern military, a leading figure in Japanese colonialism, and prime minister through the 1900s. Challenging the received wisdom about Japanese militarism and imperialism, it exposes the army's ambivalence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312232896
• ISBN13: 9780312232894
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"