Japan's Imperial Research Articles

From Utopia to Empire: Atarashikimura and A Personal View of the Greater East Asia War (1942)

Abstract Atarashikimura—“New Village”—was founded by the Japanese writer Mushakôji Saneatsu (1885—1976) in 1918 based on the utopian principles of restoring dignity to labor, communal living, and the actualization of the authentic self in artistic pursuits. The rhetoric and rationale of utopia extended to the founding of the puppet state of the Manchukuo in the 1930s as Japan's imperialism intensified. By 1943, Mushakôji wrote the infamous A Personal View on the Greater East Asia War, using the rhetoric for utopia to argue in favor of the Greater East Asian Co-prosperity Sphere. This paper will examine the allure and danger of Mushakôji's rhetoric of utopia, and how such rhetoric contributes to the escalation of war and colonization.

Reviews of Books:Japan's Imperial Diplomacy: Consuls, Treaty Ports, and War in China 1895-1938 Barbara J. Brooks

Reviews of Books:Japan's Imperial Diplomacy: Consuls, Treaty Ports, and War in China 1895-1938 Barbara J. Brooks

Japan's Imperial Diplomacy: Consuls, Treaty Ports, and War in China, 1895-1938 (review)

Japan's Imperial Diplomacy: Consuls, Treaty Ports, and War in China, 1895-1938 (review)

Japan's Imperial Diplomacy: Consuls, Treaty Ports, and War in China

Japan's Imperial Diplomacy: Consuls, Treaty Ports, and War in China

Japan's Imperial Diplomacy: Consuls, Treaty Ports, and War in China, 1895-1938. Barbara J. Brooks

Previous articleNext article No AccessReviewsJapan's Imperial Diplomacy: Consuls, Treaty Ports, and War in China, 1895-1938. Barbara J. Brooks Lincoln LiLincoln Li Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The China Journal Volume 46Jul., 2001 Published on behalf of the Australian Centre on China in the World at the Australian National University Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/3182356 Views: 4Total views on this site Citations: 8Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 2001 The China JournalPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Kasturi S., Sivakumar V. Luminescence properties of La 2 W 2−x Mo x O 9 (x = 0–2):Eu 3+ materials and their Judd–Ofelt analysis: novel red line emitting phosphors for pcLEDs, Materials Chemistry Frontiers 1, no.33 (Jan 2017): 550–561.https://doi.org/10.1039/C6QM00118AZhixin Liu, Qingyu Meng, Hongliang Liu, Chengbao Yao, Qingguo Meng, Wei Liu, Weibo Wang Energy transfer and electron–phonon coupling properties in Gd2(WO4)3:Eu phosphor, Optical Materials 36, no.22 (Dec 2013): 384–389.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2013.09.029Qing Zhang, Qingyu Meng, Wenjun Sun The concentration dependence of luminescent properties for Eu3+ doped CaWO4 micron spherical phosphors, Optical Materials 35, no.55 (Mar 2013): 915–922.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2012.11.012Fa-Bin Cao Sol–Gel Synthesis of Red-Emitting Phosphor Ca–Sr–Mo–W–O–(Eu 3+ ,La 3+ ) Powders and Luminescence Properties, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 51, no.99 (Feb 2012): 3569–3574.https://doi.org/10.1021/ie202307zL.F. Koao, H.C. Swart, R.I. Obed, F.B. Dejene Synthesis and characterization of Ce3+ doped silica (SiO2) nanoparticles, Journal of Luminescence 131, no.66 (Jun 2011): 1249–1254.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlumin.2010.10.038Yue Tian, Xiaohui Qi, Xiaowei Wu, Ruinian Hua, Baojiu Chen Luminescent Properties of Y 2 (MoO 4 ) 3 :Eu 3+ Red Phosphors with Flowerlike Shape Prepared via Coprecipitation Method, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 113, no.2424 (Jun 2009): 10767–10772.https://doi.org/10.1021/jp901053qQilin Dai, Hongwei Song, Meiyuan Wang, Xue Bai, Biao Dong, Ruifei Qin, Xuesong Qu, Hui Zhang Size and Concentration Effects on the Photoluminescence of La 2 O 2 S:Eu 3+ Nanocrystals, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 112, no.4949 (Dec 2008): 19399–19404.https://doi.org/10.1021/jp808343fYanhong Li, Guangyan Hong Synthesis and luminescence properties of nanocrystalline Gd2O3:Eu3+ by combustion process, Journal of Luminescence 124, no.22 (Jun 2007): 297–301.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlumin.2006.03.016

Japan's Imperial Diplomacy: Consuls, Treaty Ports, and War in China 1895- 1938

Japan's Imperial Diplomacy: Consuls, Treaty Ports, and War in China 1895- 1938

Schooling Japan's Imperial subjects in the early ShÔwa period

Schooling Japan's Imperial subjects in the early ShÔwa period

The Abacus and the Sword: The Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1895-1910

What forces were behind Japan's emergence as the first non-Western colonial power at the turn of the twentieth century? Peter Duus brings a new perspective to Meiji expansionism in this pathbreaking study of Japan's acquisition of Korea, the largest of its colonial possessions. He shows how Japan's drive for empire was part of a larger goal to become the economic, diplomatic, and strategic equal of the Western countries who had imposed a humiliating treaty settlement on the country in the 1850s. Duus maintains that two separate but interlinked processes, one political/military and the other economic, propelled Japan's imperialism. Every attempt at increasing Japanese political influence licensed new opportunities for trade, and each new push for Japanese economic interests buttressed, and sometimes justified, further political advances. The sword was the servant of the abacus, the abacus the agent of the sword. While suggesting that Meiji imperialism shared much with the Western colonial expansion that provided both model and context, Duus also argues that it was 'backward imperialism' shaped by a sense of inferiority vis-a-vis the West. Along with his detailed diplomatic and economic history, Duus offers a unique social history that illuminates the motivations and lifestyles of the overseas Japanese of the time, as well as the views that contemporary Japanese had of themselves and their fellow Asians.

Japan's Imperial Diet Building: Debate over Construction of a National Identity

Japan's Imperial Diet Building: Debate over Construction of a National Identity

Hoyt, Hirohito - The Emperor And The Man

Since the end of World War II and the subsequent American occupation of Japan, an Imperial conspiracy behind Japanese militarism and expansionism in East Asia prior to and during World War II has always played well in American academia, the press, and in the mind of the general public. The publication of David Bergamini's popular 1300-page tome, Japan's Imperial Conspiracy (1971), served to reinforce this theory. Bergamini's analysis of Hirohito essentially agrees with the findings of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East that sat between 1946-1948, which convicted and sentenced some twenty-five well-known Japanese officials for war crimes, the best known being the infamous General Hideki Tojo.

The American Role in Revising Japan's Imperial Constitution

Unlike the constitution of the Empire of Japan, commonly called the Meiji Constitution after the Meiji emperor, the current Japanese constitution was not produced by an elite group of clan oligarchs and then octroyed or issued in 1889 by the emperor as a fait accompli. Neither was the current constitution produced by a learned constitutional commission or a national or constituent assembly convened as a result of a popular vote or otherwise selected for the purpose of drafting a constitution, submitting it to the electorate for ratification, with or without power to govern in the meantime, and then dissolving when and if the new constitution was approved by the electorate. On the contrary, the national legislature that adopted the current constitution consisted of one house chosen under the Meiji Constitution by direct popular vote and another house composed of nobles, peers, and persons appointed by the emperor and others elected by the biggest taxpayers. The legislature continued to sit with an equally obsolescent privy council for the primary purpose of enacting a series of vitally important statutes designed to conform the law codes of the land to the principles of the new fundamental law. Men of letters, journalists, and one national commission of inquiry have concluded that the current constitution was imposed by the Americans upon the Japanese, and have condemned the constitutional process that was followed as coer-

The Tradition of Conflict in the Governance of Japan's Imperial Universities

THE PAST DECADE has been a tumultuous one for Japanese higher education with faculty pitted against students, students against government, and government against both in an often chaotic and seemingly incessant search for an answer to the question Who governs Japan's universities? The answer given by many analysts is no one-that the conflict between these three bodies have rendered Japanese universities ungovernable. Failure to achieve consensus and implement needed reforms in higher education has been attributed largely to the decentralized internal organization of the leading universities and the tradition of deep-seated hostility between academic intellectuals and the Japanese government. (1) Although the more violent and dramatic of the conflicts in the late 1960s and early 1970s have received considerable attention by observers outside Japan, the long tradition of conflict over university governance which provides such a significant part of the intellectual and political context for those caught up in the contemporary debates has received far less attention. (2) The purpose of this essay is to provide an historical perspective on this conflict by sketching in the prewar background that constitutes the heritage of academic selfgovernment at Japan's oldest and still foremost universities, the imperial universities of Tokyo and Kyoto.

Japanese Aggression and the Emperor, 1931–1941, from Contemporary Diaries

In 1971, David Bergamini, a journalist, published a very large book,Japan's Imperial Conspiracy, which sought to prove that the Emperor was virtually the sole cause and instigator of Japanese aggression in the 1930s and 1940s. Bergamini even believes the Emperor planned, among other skullduggeries, several political assassinations. The book is a polemic which, to our knowledge, contradicts all previous scholarly work, whether in English or in Japanese. It also contradicts the facts upon which this previous scholarship rested. Specialists on Japan have unanimously demolished Bergamini's thesis and his pretensions to careful scholarship.

Review: Japan's Imperial Conspiracy, by David Bergamini

Book Review| February 01 1973 Review: Japan's Imperial Conspiracy, by David Bergamini Japan's Imperial ConspiracyDavid Bergamini Herschel Webb Herschel Webb Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1973) 42 (1): 124–125. https://doi.org/10.2307/3637767 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Herschel Webb; Review: Japan's Imperial Conspiracy, by David Bergamini. Pacific Historical Review 1 February 1973; 42 (1): 124–125. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/3637767 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentPacific Historical Review Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1973 The Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Japan's Imperial Conspiracy and The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945

Journal Article Japan's Imperial Conspiracy and The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945 Get access Japan's Imperial Conspiracy. By David Bergamini. Introduction by Sir William Flood Webb. London: Heinemann. 1971. 1239 pp. Bibliog. Index. £4.50.The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945. By John Toland. London: Cassell. 1971. 954 pp. Bibliog. Index. £4.50. Malcolm D. Kennedy Malcolm D. Kennedy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 48, Issue 2, April 1972, Pages 367–368, https://doi.org/10.2307/2613516 Published: 01 April 1972