Newly Compiled History of Modern Japan

Author: Song Chengyou
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: This book focuses on the tumultuous modern history of Japan. From the collapse of the feudal system and the establishment of the Meiji government to the Westernization period of reforms and the nationalization period of reforms, until the military rise of the "Greater Japanese Empire," the Pacific War, and the demise of the Japanese Empire. Interwoven within this narrative are the intellectual and cultural changes and the polarization among various social strata that occurred alongside the social upheavals. A modern history of Japan, which underwent a process of reforms, military buildup, foreign aggression, and ultimately lost the war. The energy generated by the reforms and self-strengthening was channeled into internal consolidation and external competition, but the aggressive strategy ultimately destroyed the achievements of the reforms, with great ups and downs, rises and falls. In recent years, the revisionist liberal historical view of the Japanese right-winging history and denying aggression has become increasingly prominent. It is necessary to base oneself on historical facts to record the crimes of Japanese militarism's bloody aggressive wars while studying the modern Japan that abandoned the old for the new and developed rapidly. At this point, this book is no different from most other research works.