Meiji Japan in Global History

This book examines Meiji Japan (1868-1912) to demonstrate the complex interplay between Japanese nation-building and the country's engagement with global processes.

Autorentext

Catherine L. Phipps is Associate Professor of History and Director of International and Global Studies at the University of Memphis. She is the author of Empires on the Waterfront: Japan's Ports and Power, 18581899 (2015).

Zusammenfassung
This book examines Meiji Japan (18681912) to demonstrate the complex interplay between Japanese nation-building and the country's engagement with global processes.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Meiji Japan in global history

Catherine L. Phipps

2. Recording violence as crime in Karafuto, 18671875

Takahiro Yamamoto

3. Fukuoka's Meiji migrants and the making of an imperial region

Hannah Shepherd

4. Smithian rhetoric, Listian practice: the Matsukata 'retrenchment' and industrial policy, 18811885

Steven J. Ericson

5. Women, missionaries, and medical professions: the history of overseas female students in Meiji Japan

Hiro Fujimoto

6. The nationality law and entry restrictions of 1899: constructing Japanese identity between China and the West

Eric C. Han

7. Imagining an Islamic Japan: pan-Asianism's encounter with Muslim missionaries

Ulrich Brandenburg

8. Japan's global peace moment

Simon Partner

9. Meiji Restoration vacation: heritage tourism in contemporary Kyoto

Jennifer Prough