Japan Versus Europe
Author | : Endymion Porter Wilkinson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Endymion Porter Wilkinson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : François Foret |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2021-12-24 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1000487385 |
This book explains the increasing importance of value politics in Europe and Japan, shedding light on various arenas: social values; parties, elections and politics; public action, private sector and law; identity politics and religion; media and public spheres. It analyses how, against different but commensurable backgrounds, the rise of value politics alters (or not) the political game, for which purposes and with which effects. Applying both qualitative and quantitative methods from a wide range of primary and secondary sources, the comparison is organized by joining skills from experts of Japan and Europe and by systematizing a common analytical framework for the two cases. As such, it presents a revealing and unique analysis of the changing relationship between values and political behaviour in the two polities. Beyond the comparison, it also documents the opportunities and challenges underlying the interactions between Europe, Japan and the rest of the world; and the competition/combination between different versions of modernity. This book is of key interest to scholars and students of European studies and politics, Asian politics/studies, Japanese studies/politics and more broadly to comparative politics, sociology, cultural/media studies, and economics.
Author | : Marie Conte-Helm |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2013-12-17 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1780939809 |
Japanese investment in Europe has been growing by leaps and bounds and this book charts the course of this phenomenon, looking both at the Japanese experience of Europe and the European experience of the Japanese, and social, cultural and economic consequences of this encounter. This contemporary snap-shot is based upon a wealth of interviews and fully-illustrated by photographs, maps and diagrams. First published in 1996, this title is part of the Bloomsbury Academic Collections series.
Author | : Bert Edstrom |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2013-04-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136638954 |
Not another 'misunderstandings and misconceptions' volume, but a wide-ranging review of intellectual traditions, mutual and alternative images, and case studies of people and events that mirror the focus of this book.
Author | : Gordon Daniels |
Publisher | : RoutledgeCurzon |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Donald Keene |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1969-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780804774161 |
This is an account of the growth and uses of Western learning in Japan from 1720 to 1830. These are the dates of the beginning of official interest in Western learning and of the expulsion of Siebold from the country, the first stage of a crisis that could be resolved only by the opening of the country of the West. The century and more included by the two dates was a most important period in Japanese history, when intellectuals, rebelling at the isolation of their country, desperately sought knowledge from abroad. The amazing energy and enthusiasm of men like Honda Toshiaki made possible the spectacular changes in Japan, which are all too often credited to the arrival of Commodore Perry. The author chose Honda Toshiaki (1744-1821) as his central figure. A page from any one of Honda's writings suffices to show that with him one has entered a new age, that of modern Japan. One finds in his books a new spirit, restless, curious and receptive. There is in him the wonder at new discoveries, the delight in widening horizons. Honda took a kind of pleasure even in revealing that Japan, after all, was only a small island in a large world. To the Japanese who had thought of Chinese civilization as being immemorial antiquity, he declared that Egypt's was thousands of years older and far superior. The world, he discovered, was full of wonderful things, and he insisted that Japan take advantage of them. Honda looked at Japan as he thought a Westerner might, and saw things that had to be changed, terrible drains on the country's moral and physical strength. Within him sprang the conviction that Japan must become one of the great nations of the world.
Author | : Emeritus Professor W G Beasley |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1995-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780300063240 |
For over a hundred years the Japanese have looked to the West for ideas, institutions and technology that would help them achieve their goal of 'national wealth and strength'. In this book a distinguished historian of Japan discusses Japan's 'cultural borrowing' from America and Europe. W. G. Beasley focuses on the mid-nineteenth century, when Japan's rulers dispatched diplomatic missions to the West to discover what Japan needed to learn, sent students abroad to assimilate information and invited foreign experts to Japan to help put the knowledge to practical use. Beasley examines the origins of the decision to initiate direct study of the West at a time when western countries counted as 'barbarian' by Confucian standards. Drawing on many colourful letters, diaries, memoirs and reports, he describes the missions sent overseas in 1860 and 1862, in 1865-1867 and in the years after 1868, in particular the prestigious embassy led by Iwakura in 1871-1873. The book also tells the story of the several hundred students who went overseas in this period. It concludes by assessing the impact of the encounters on the subsequent development of Japan, first by examining the later careers of the travellers and the influence they exercised (they included no fewer than six prime ministers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries), and then by considering the nature of the ideas they brought home.
Author | : Endymion Porter Wilkinson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Europe |
ISBN | : |
Examines the right and the wrongs on both sides to blame for Western decline in the face of the Japanese competition? Are the Europeans and Americans lazy as well as improving European and US ability to cope with the rise of Japan. This book was previously published as "Japan Versus Europe."
Author | : Loukas Tsoukalis |
Publisher | : New York : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Olof G. Lidin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2003-12-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135788707 |
The year 1543 marked the beginning of a new global consciousness in Japan with the arrival of shipwrecked Portuguese merchants on Tanegashima Island in southern Japan. Other Portuguese soon followed and Japan became aware of a world beyond India. After the merchants came the first missionary Francis Xavier in 1549, beginning the Christian century in Japan. This is not a new story, but it is the first time that Japanese, Portuguese and other European accounts have been brought together and presented in English. Their arrival was recorded by the Japanese in Tanegashima kafu, the Teppoki and the Kunitomo teppoki, here translated and presented together with European reports. Includes maps, and Portuguese and Japanese illustrations.