{"product_id":"power-and-dissent-in-imperial-japan-three-forms-of-political-engagement-9788776941185","title":"Power and Dissent in Imperial Japan: Three Forms","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume examines the careers and intellectual positions of three prominent Japanese \"dissidents\" in the later Imperial period - Minobe Tatsukichi, Sakai Toshihiko and Saito Takao - as individual responses to the new forms of authority that appeared after the Meiji Restoration of 1868.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe principles to which each adhered - the rule of law, socialist egalitarianism, and representative government - contributed to the new ideas about authority and the individual in post-Restoration Japan. They also remain fundamental (at least in theory) in today's Japanese polity and society. The study reaffirms the serious limitations of the pre-war Japanese political system, its structural and institutional problems, and deep-rooted ambivalence about democratic change. But it also confirms the birth of an alternative tradition in which individuals began to define and sponsor the processes of national self-regulation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book traces the perspectives of three such individuals who chose to contest the new power arrangements through their writings and political activities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"NIAS Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047024296279,"sku":"9788776941185","price":25.16,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9788776941185.jpg?v=1750969958","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/power-and-dissent-in-imperial-japan-three-forms-of-political-engagement-9788776941185","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}