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 history of modern 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 Japan Empire," the Pacific War, and the downfall of the Japanese Empire. Interwoven within this narrative are the intellectual and cultural changes and the divisions among various social strata that occurred during the social upheavals. A history of modern Japan, it 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 the path of suppressing internal dissent and competing externally. 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 the atrocities of aggression has become increasingly vocal. It is necessary to use historical facts as a basis to study the modern Japanese abandonment of the old for the new and rapid development while recording the crimes of the Japanese militarism in launching bloody aggressive wars, as a warning to the present and an indication for the future. In this regard, this book is no different from most other research works.