The Emergence of Modern Japan by Janet Hunter

Author:Janet Hunter [Hunter, Janet]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Asia, Japan, General
ISBN: 9781317870869
Google: 4soFBAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-06T01:23:08+00:00

NOTES

1 The question of the applicability of the term ‘feudalism’ in relation to Japan is mentioned in Chapter One.

2 During the early 1860s the Bakufu pursued a policy of rapprochement with the court, referred to as kōbu gattai (unity of court and Bakufu), but this attempt to shore up the system using the influence of the court proved unsuccessful.

3 The word tennōsei is widely used in Japanese literature, as is the translation in English-language writings. While some historians define it more narrowly, for most it implies the prewar political system of supreme imperial authority, and the social and legal structures that supported it. It is in this looser sense that it is used here.

4 The military aspect of these changes is discussed in Chapter Twelve.

5 The constitution was referred to as ‘emperor-given’.

6 Ōkuma Shigenobu was a member of the Meiji oligarchy who left the government in 1881.

7 Shōwa was the reign name taken by the new emperor in 1926, and the word ‘restoration’ was used to evoke the Meiji Restoration of 1868.

8 The role of the Shōwa emperor in the policies of the 1930s and 1940s has been much debated. After the war the emperor was often seen abroad as a Japanese Machiavelli, but more recent attempts to prove his complicity in policy-making are hardly substantiated.

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