Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 On the periphery: Provincial life and the military 1890; 2 The profits of war: The conflict with China 1894-95 and beyond; 3 The costs of war: The conflict with Russia 1904-05; 4 The business of bases in late Meiji; 5 'Good soldiers, good citizens': The local military in the public gaze; 6 The discontents of Taisho: Wars and peace in the 1910s; 7 Under reconstruction: The civil-military contract in the 1920s era of army rationalization; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
The book challenges the long-standing view of prewar Japan as a 'militaristic' society. Instead of relying on the usual accounts about senior commanders and politics at the heart of government, it shows the realities of provincial society's relations with the military in Japan at ground level
