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This first in-depth study in English of one of Japan’s popular historians and a well-known journalist of the Meiji and Taish periods challenges the conventional view that Yamaji Aizan was essentially a ‘nationalist’ at heart eager to see Japan expand into Asia and a supporter of the colonization of Korea.
Price: $135.00
Pages: 262
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
08 November 2007
ISBN: 9781905246168
Format: Hardcover
Yushi Ito is Director, Japanese Programme, School of Asian and European Languages and Cultures, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Recent publications include Nashonarizumu to rekishi ronso – Yamaji Aizan to sono jidai [Nationalism and Debating History – Yamaji Aizan and his Time] (Tokyo, 2005), ‘National History vs Japanese History - Yamaji Aizan's View of Japan and the World’ (in: Asian Futures, Asian Traditions (2005)), ‘Japanese Nationalism and China's Independence - Yamaji Aizan 1865-1917’ (in: Japanese Cultural Nationalism – at Home and in the Asia Pacific (2003)). His current areas of research are conflicting views of the world in modernizing Japan and the place of Okinawa in Japanese history.