The political history of modern Japan : foreign relations and domestic politics - Kitaoka, Shin'ichi, 1948- (New York : Routledge, 2019)
Preface to the English edition -- Preface -- About the author -- Chapter 1. The political characteristics of the Tokugawa political system -- Chapter 2. Responding to the West -- Chapter 3. Building the Meiji State -- Chapter 4. Rise of opposition -- Chapter 5. Creation of the Meiji constitutional structure -- Chapter 6. The establishment of Parliament -- Chapter 7. The first Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese wars -- Chapter 8. Imperial expansion -- Chapter 9. The development of party government -- Chapter 10. International cooperation and party cabinets -- Chapter 11. The rise of the military -- Chapter 12. The destruction of the empire -- Chapter 13. Defeat, occupation, and peace -- Chapter 14. The development of LDP politics -- Chapter 15. Changes in the international order and the end of the Cold War -- Chapter 16. Japan's colonies and their fates.
'Originally published by Yuhikaku Publishing Co., Ltd in 2011 and 2017 English translation arranged with Yuhikaku Publishing Co., Ltd through Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture (JPIC)'--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Keywords: Japan -- Politics and government -- 1868-.; Japan -- Foreign relations -- 1868-.