Imperial Japan and the World, 1931-1945, (4 Volume Set)

The transformation of Japan in the years between 1931 and 1945 into an expansionist and potentially hegemonic power that threatened the stability of the international order in East Asia is a topic that is central to any understanding of the region’s history in the twentieth century.

This new four-volume collection from Routledge brings together the best and most influential scholarship on the period, both contemporary and historical. Volumes I and II focus on politics, foreign policy, and diplomacy. Volume III meanwhile covers economic and financial history. Finally, Volume IV assembles key work on social, cultural, and intellectual factors.

The collection is fully indexed and includes a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor. Each volume of this essential work of reference is also supplemented with an invaluable list of suggested further reading.

Volume I : Politics in Japan, 1931 - 45

Part 1 : Contemporary Essays
Chapter 1 : Party Battles in Japan : Pacific Affairs
Chapter 2 : Dissolve The Political Parties : Contemporary Japan
Chapter 3 : Japan Governed by The "Camp" : The Fortnightly Review
Chapter 4 : Fascist Tendencies in Japan : Pacific Affairs
Chapter 5 : Recent Japanese Politics : Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science
Chapter 6 : Manchukuo, Precursor of Asiatic Renaissance and The Government by Wang-tao (Kingly Way) Based on Theocracy
Chapter 7 : The Changing Status of The Cabinet in Japan
Chapter 8 : Japan as a Totalitarian State
Chapter 9 : Open Discussion
Chapter 10 : Problems of Japanese Administration in Korea
Chapter 11 : Observations on Fascism in Japan
Chapter 12 : The New National Structure : Contemporary Japan
Chapter 13 : Japanese Liberalism : Foreign Affairs
Chapter 14 : The Military and The Government in Japan : The American Political Science Review
Chapter 15 : Bureaucratic Japan : Far Eastern Survey
Chapter 16 : The "Ethical Elevation" of Japanese Politics : Far Eastern Survey
Chapter 17 : The Japanese High Command (Part One) : Military Affairs

Part 2 : Historical Essays
Chapter 18 : Women’s Rights and Society’s Needs : Japan’s 1931 Suffrage Bill : Comparative Studies in Society and History
Chapter 19 : Tenko : Marxism and The National Question : Polity
Chapter 20 : The Army as a Bureaucracy : Journal of Military History
Chapter 21 : Fascism From Below? A Comparative Perspective on The Japanese Right, 1931 - 1936 : Journal of Contemporary History
Chapter 22 : Nationalist Extremism in Early Showa Japan : Inoue Nissho and The "Blood Pledge Corps Incident", 1932 : Modern Asian Studies
Chapter 23 : Kita Ikki and The Politics of Coercion : Modern Asian Studies
Chapter 24 : The Showa Emperor and The End of The Manchurian Crisis : Japan Forum

Volume II : Foreign Policy and Diplomacy, 1931 - 45

Part 1 : Contemporary Essays
Chapter 25 : Japan and The Manchurian Question : Nineteenth Century and After
Chapter 26 : Japan, The League of Nations and The Peace Pact : Lectures on Japan : An Outline of The Development of The Japanese People and Their Culture
Chapter 27 : The Problem of Manchuria : International Affairs
Chapter 28 : World Peace Machinery and The Asia Monroe Doctrine : Pacific Affairs
Chapter 29 : A Japanese View of The Manchurian Situation : Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science
Chapter 30 : The Permanent Bases of Japanese Foreign Policy : Foreign Affairs
Chapter 31 : Russo-Japanese Friction : The Nineteenth Century and After
Chapter 32 : The Aims of Japan : Foreign Affairs
Chapter 33 : Anglo-Japanese Relations : The Fortnightly Review
Chapter 34 : Japan To-day and To-morrow : International Affairs
Chapter 35 : A Japanese View of The Struggle in The Far East : International Affairs
Chapter 36 : Future Relations between Japan and China : Contemporary Japan
Chapter 37 : Preparing for a New World Order : Contemporary Japan
Chapter 38 : Japan’s New Order in The Pacific : Pacific Affairs

Part 2 : Historical Essays
Chapter 39 : The Soviet Factor in Japanese Foreign Policy, 1923 - 1937 : Acta Slavica Iaponica
Chapter 40 : Containing The Crisis : Japan’s Diplomatic Offensive in The West, 1931 - 33 : Modern Asian Studies
Chapter 41 : Japan’s Economic Security and The Origins of The Pacific War : Journal of Strategic Studies
Chapter 42 : The Japanese Navy and The Development of Southward Expansion, International Commercial Rivalry in SouTheast Asia in The Inter-War Period
Chapter 43 : Japanese Approaches to China in The 1930s : Two Alternatives, American, Chinese and Japanese Perspectives on Wartime Asia 1931 - 1949
Chapter 44 : A Reconsideration of The Marco Polo Bridge Incident : Journal of Asian Studies
Chapter 45 : The Road to Sino-Japanese Collaboration : The Background to The Defection of Wang Ching-wei : Monumenta Nipponica
Chapter 46 : The Shocks of The Atomic Bomb and Japan’s Decision to Surrender : A Reconsideration : Pacific Historical Review

Volume III : Economics and Finance, 1931 - 45

Part 1 : Contemporary Essays
Chapter 47 : Our Stricken Agriculture : Contemporary Japan
Chapter 48 : The Political and Economic Position of Japan : International Affairs
Chapter 49 : Japan’s Balance of Trade : Economica
Chapter 50 : Export Control in Japan : Far Eastern Survey
Chapter 51 : Mineral Deficiency Versus Self-Sufficiency in Japan : Far Eastern Survey
Chapter 52 : Japanese Industrialization and The British Empire : Asiatic Review
Chapter 53 : The Japanese State as Industrialist and Financier : Far Eastern Survey
Chapter 54 : The Recent Monetary Policy of Japan, The Lessons of Monetary Experience
Chapter 55 : Pygmy Factories : The Backbone of Japanese Industry : Far Eastern Survey
Chapter 56 : Japanese State Finance : Pacific Affairs
Chapter 57 : Manchukuo’s New Economic Policy : Pacific Affairs
Chapter 58 : Policy Centralization in Japan under The Kokutai Principle : Pacific Affairs
Chapter 59 : Japan’s War Economy : Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science
Chapter 60 : Japan’s Oil Supplies
Chapter 61 : Japan’s "New Economic Structure" : Pacific Affairs

Part 2 : Historical Essays
Chapter 62 : Japan’s Rural Economy in Crisis, The Economies of Africa and Asia in The Inter-war Depression
Chapter 63 : Female Migration and The Farm Family Economy in Interwar Japan, Women, Gender and Labour Migration : Historical and Global Perspectives
Chapter 64 : The Great Depression in Japan : Why Was it So Short?, Business Cycles Since 1800 : New Historical Perspectives from Historical Evidence
Chapter 65 : Takahashi Korekiyo’s Economic Policies in The Great Depression and Their Meiji Roots
Chapter 66 : Intra-Asian Trade and East Asia’s Industrialization, 1919 - 1939, Industrial Growth in The Third World, c : 1870 - c : 1990 : Depressions, Intra-Regional Trade, and Ethnic Networks
Chapter 67 : Japan’s Economic Expansion in The NeTherlands Indies Between The First and Second World Wars : Journal of SouTheast Asian Studies
Chapter 68 : The Economics of Japanese Imperialism in Korea, 1910 - 1939 : Economic History Review
Chapter 69 : Economic Mobilization in Wartime Japan : Business, Bureaucracy, and Military in Conflict : Journal of Asian Studies
Chapter 70 : Technocratic Visions of Empire : Technology Bureaucrats and The "New Order" for Science-Technology, The Japanese Empire in East Asia and its Postwar Legacy

Volume IV : Social, Cultural, and Intellectual Factors, 1931 - 45

Part 1 : Contemporary Essays
Chapter 71 : Japan’s Population Problem : Asiatic Review
Chapter 72 : Japanese Emigration to Brazil : Pacific Affairs
Chapter 73 : The National Character of The Japanese : Contemporary Japan
Chapter 74 : Cultural Relations with Japan : Asiatic Review
Chapter 75 : Japanese Sensibility : Harper’s Monthly Magazine
Chapter 76 : Population and Conquest : Pacific Affairs
Chapter 77 : State and Education : Contemporary Japan
Chapter 78 : Cinema Censorship in Japan : Contemporary Japan
Chapter 79 : The Theory of an East Asian Unity : Contemporary Japan
Chapter 80 : Our Women in The Emergency : Contemporary Japan
Chapter 81 : Recent Trends in Japanese Political Thought : Pacific Affairs
Chapter 82 : The T’ai Chi Symbol in Japanese War Propaganda : Public Opinion Quarterly
Chapter 83 : A Pan-Asiatic Union : A Japanese Conception : Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science
Chapter 84 : Understanding and Misunderstanding Japan : Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science
Chapter 85 : Japanese Emigration and Japan’s Population Pressure : Pacific Affairs
Chapter 86 : Japan’s Psychological Warfare : Social Forces

Part 2 : Historical Essays
Chapter 87 : State and Religion in Imperial Japan, 1912 - 1945 : Journal of Japanese Studies
Chapter 88 : Marketing The Modern : Department Stores, Consumer Culture and The New Middle Class in Interwar Japan : International Labor and Working Class History
Chapter 89 : Women and War in Japan, 1937 - 45 : American Historical Review
Chapter 90 : uvenile Delinquency and The National Defense State : Policing Young Workers in Wartime Japan, 1937 - 1945 : Journal of Asian Studies
Chapter 91 : Japanese Literature and Politics in The 1930s : Journal of Japanese Studies
Chapter 92 : Culture in Japanese Foreign Affairs, Conflict and Amity in East Asia : Essays in Honour of Ian Nish
Chapter 93 : Imperialism Without Colonies : The Vision of a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Zone : Diplomacy and Statecraft
Chapter 94 : Rationalizing The Orient : The "East Asia Cooperative Community" in Prewar Japan : Monumenta Nipponica
Chapter 95 : The Nishida Enigma : "The Principle of The New Order" : Monumenta Nipponica