Hugh Byas, a British Editor Who Became a Leading Expert on Japan Between the First and Second World Wars: A Biographical History of a Newspaper Journa

by Peter B. Oblas

The script of Hugh Byas, Journalist-Japanologist, developed while he was editor of the "Japan Advertiser" and later correspondent of the "London Times" and "New York Times", a career in Japan that spanned the World War I era to the onset of World War II, was a discourse on progressive sovereignty. He equated a sovereign state with one that possessed an organized government capable of modernizing the state and developing democratic institutions to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773446605
• ISBN13: 9780773446601
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
• Length: 235 Pages