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Book SynopsisFeaturing an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars, Tumultuous Decade examines Japanese domestic and foreign affairs between 1931 and 1941.
Trade Review'Tumultuous Decade is a bold rethinking, not only of Japanese history during the truly tumultuous decade of the 1930s, but also, and more broadly of what it means to do Japanese history for any period...It is historical scholarship at its very best.' -- Jason Morgan Japan Review vol 27:2014
Table of ContentsPart I: Economics, Culture, Society and Identity Chapter 1: Zaikai's Perception of and Orientation to the United States - Masato Kimura (Shibusawa Eiichi Memorial Foundation) Chapter 2: Cultural Internationalism and Japan's Wartime Empire: The Turns of the Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai - Jessamyn R. Abel (Pennsylvania State University) Chapter 3: Japanese Pan-Asianism through the Mirror of Pan-Islamism - Cemil Aydin (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Chapter 4: Emperor, Family and Modernity: The 1940 Passage of the National Eugenics Law - Sumiko Otsubo (Metropolitan State University) Part II: The Empire and Imperial Concerns Chapter 5: Strengthening and Expanding Japan through Social Work in Colonial Taiwan - Evan Dawley (U.S. Department of State) Chapter 6: Between Collaboration and Conflict: State and Society in Wartime Korea - Jun Uchida (Stanford University) Chapter 7: The Thought War: Public Diplomacy by Japan's Immigrants in the U.S. - Yuka Fujioka (Kwansei Gakuin University) Part III: High Diplomacy and the Statesmen Chapter 8: Meiji Diplomacy in the Early 1930s: Uchida Kosai, Manchuria and Post-withdrawal Foreign Policy - Rustin Gates (Bradley University) Chapter 9: Japan's Diplomatic Gamble for Autonomy: Rethinking Matsuoka Yosuke's Diplomacy - Satoshi Hattori (Osaka University) Chapter 10: Dissembling Diplomatist: Admiral Toyoda Teijiro and the Politics of Japanese Security - Peter Mauch (University of Western Sydney) Chapter 11: "No Choice but to Rise": Togo Shigenori and Japan's Decision for War - Tosh Minohara (Kobe University)
