Power and Dissent in Imperial Japan: Three Forms of Political Engagement

By: Sasamoto-Collins, Hiromi

This volume examines the careers and intellectual positions of three prominent Japanese "dissidents" in the later Imperial period--Minobe Tatsukichi, Sakai Toshihiko, and Saitō Takao--as individual responses to the new forms of authority that appeared after the Meiji Restoration of 1868. The principles to which each adhered--the rule of law, socialist egalitarianism, and representative government--contributed to the new ideas about authority and the individual in post-Restoration Japan. They also remain fundamental (at least in theory) in today's Japanese polity and society.

The study reaffirms the serious limitations of the pre-war Japanese political system, its structural and institutional problems, and deep-rooted ambivalence about democratic change.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8776941183
• ISBN13: 9788776941185
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"