TY  - BOOK
AU  - Paine,S.C.M.
TI  - The Japanese empire: grand strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War 
SN  - 9781107011953
AV  - DS838.7 .P35 2017
U1  - A6x52 P161 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambidge Univ. Press
KW  - Strategy
KW  - History
KW  - Great powers
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Japan
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - History, Military
KW  - 1868-1945
KW  - Military policy
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - 1868-1912
KW  - 1912-1945
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-197) and index
N2  - "The Japanese experience of war from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century presents a stunning example of the meteoric rise and shattering fall of a great power. As Japan modernized and became the one non-European great power, its leaders concluded that an empire on the Asian mainland required the containment of Russia. Japan won the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-5) and the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5) but became overextended in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1931-45), which escalated, with profound consequences, into World War II. A combination of incomplete institution building, an increasingly lethal international environment, a skewed balance between civil and military authority, and a misunderstanding of geopolitics explains these divergent outcomes. This analytical survey examines themes including the development of Japanese institutions, diversity of opinion within the government, domestic politics, Japanese foreign policy and China's anti-Japanese responses. It is an essential guide for those interested in history, politics and international relations"--
BR  - 89431
ER  -