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Janis Mimura - Planning for Empire: Reform Bureaucrats and the Japanese Wartime State - 9780801449260 - V9780801449260
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Planning for Empire: Reform Bureaucrats and the Japanese Wartime State

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Description for Planning for Empire: Reform Bureaucrats and the Japanese Wartime State Hardback. Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJG; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 485.

Japan's invasion of Manchuria in September of 1931 initiated a new phase of brutal occupation and warfare in Asia and the Pacific. It forwarded the project of remaking the Japanese state along technocratic and fascistic lines and creating a self-sufficient Asian bloc centered on Japan and its puppet state of Manchukuo. In Planning for Empire, Janis Mimura traces the origins and evolution of this new order and the ideas and policies of its chief architects, the reform bureaucrats. The reform bureaucrats pursued a radical, authoritarian vision of modern Japan in which public and private spheres were fused, ownership and control ... Read more

Mimura shifts our attention away from reactionary young officers to state planners—reform bureaucrats, total war officers, new zaibatsu leaders, economists, political scientists, engineers, and labor party leaders. She shows how empire building and war mobilization raised the stature and influence of these middle-class professionals by calling forth new government planning agencies, research bureaus, and think tanks to draft Five Year industrial plans, rationalize industry, mobilize the masses, streamline the bureaucracy, and manage big business. Deftly examining the political battles and compromises of Japanese technocrats in their bid for political power and Asian hegemony, Planning for Empire offers a new perspective on Japanese fascism by revealing its modern roots in the close interaction of technology and right-wing ideology.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801449260
SKU
V9780801449260
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About Janis Mimura
Janis Mimura is Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Reviews for Planning for Empire: Reform Bureaucrats and the Japanese Wartime State
Drawing on a wealth of largely untapped primary materials and journals, the work focuses specifically on a group of elite bureaucrats, predominantly graduates of Tokyo Imperial University, and army staff officers who were the driving force behind the reorganization of the Japanese economy in the late 1930s and 1940s... Mimura's is the first English-language synthesis that traces the history of ... Read more

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