War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914-1919

by Frederick R. Dickinson

Book Overview

For Japan, as one of the victorious allies, World War I meant territorial gains in China and the Pacific. At the end of the war, however, Japan discovered that in modeling itself on imperial Germany since the nineteenth century, it had perhaps been imitating the wrong national example. Japanese policy debates during World War I, particularly the clash between proponents of greater democratization and those who argued for military expansion, thus became...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674946553
• ISBN13: 9780674946552
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 363 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"