Rioters and Citizens: Mass Protest in Imperial Japan Volume 24

by Michael L. Lewis

Book Overview

On 22 July 1918 a group of Japanese fishermen's wives met in a small village on the coast to discuss what they could do to lower the spiraling cost of rice. This peaceful meeting gave rise to the 1918 race riots, a series of mass demonstrations and armed clashes that spread rapidly throughout the country on a scale unprecedented in modern Japanese history. In this penetrating study, Michael Lewis questions standard historical interpretations of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520305973
• ISBN13: 9780520305977
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"