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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I: Media History -- 1. Managing the News: Fukuchi Gen'ichirō Attempts to Balance Two Worlds -- 2. Japan's First Newspaper Law: The Emergence of the Press as an Independent Voice -- 3. Freedom and the Press in Meiji-Taishō Japan -- 4. Commercialization and the Changing World of the Mid-Meiji Press -- 5. The Meiji Roots and Contemporary Practice of the Japanese Press -- 6. In Retrospect (Creating a Public: People and Press in Meiji Japan) -- 7. Edward Howard House: In the Service of Meiji Japan -- 8. That 'Naughty Yankee Boy,' Edward H. House and Meiji Japan's Struggle for Equality -- 9. Edward H. House: Questions of Meaning and Influence -- 10. Selected Writings of E.H. House: Introduction -- 11. Introduction (Japanese Episodes) -- Part II: Society, Culture & Environment -- 12. The Faces of Meiji -- 13. Looking Both Ways: The Use of Meiji Travel Literature in the Classroom -- 14. Nation v. People: Ashio and Japan's First Environmental Crisis -- 15. Introduction (Down and Out in Late Meiji Japan) -- 16. Poverty in Late Meiji Japan: It Mattered Where You Lived -- 17. The Idioms of Contemporary Japan XI: Kinmyaku-Jinmyaku -- 18. Japanese Society in the Twentieth Century -- Part III: Democracy, Government & Nationalism -- 19. Restoration and Revolution -- 20. Meiji 1-10: Takeoff Time for Modern Japan -- 21. The Popular Rights Debate: Political or Ideological? -- 22. Nationalism and the Taming of Japan's Early Twentieth Century Press -- 23. Yasukuni Shrine on the Silver Screen: Spirits of the State -- Part IV: Selected Reviews -- 24. Alistar Swale, The Meiji Restoration: Monarchism, Mass Communication and Conservative Revolution -- 25. Eiko Siniawer, Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists: The Violent Politics of Modern Japan -- 26. David L. Howell, Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan -- 27. Sarah Thal, Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods: The Politics of a Pilgrimage Site in Japan, 1573-1912 -- 28. Alexis Dudden, Japan's Colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power -- 29. Donald Keene, Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World -- 30. Robert B. Marks, The Origins of the Modern World -- 31. Marius B. Jansen, The Making of Modern Japan -- 32. Joseph Henning, Outposts of Civilization: Race, Religion, and the Formative Years of American-Japanese Relations -- 33. Yoshitake Oka, Five Political Leaders of Modern Japan: Itō Hirobumi, Ōkuma Shigenobu, Hara Takashi, Inukai Tsuyoshi, and Saionji Kimmochi -- Notes -- Index |
| Summary |
A mini memoir, plus thirty journal papers and scholarly essays, thematically structured under: Media, Society, Culture and Environment, Democracy, Government and Nationalism, and a selection from his portfolio of book reviews. This offers valuable access to the scholarship of Huffman that both complements and enhances existing published works |
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Culture |
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Democracy |
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Environment |
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Government |
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Japan |
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Media, Society |
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Nationalism |
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Press -- Japan -- History
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Asian history.
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HISTORY / Asia / Japan.
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Politics and government
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Press
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Japan -- History -- Meiji period, 1868-1912.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069489
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Japan -- Social conditions -- 1868-1912. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006987
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Japan -- Politics and government -- 1868-1912. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069549
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| Subject |
Japan
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781898823957 |
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1898823952 |
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