Imperial Japan and the world, 1931-1945: critical concepts in Asian studies/ edited by Antony Best.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

v. 1. Politics in Japan, 1931-1945 -- v. 2. Foreign policy and diplomacy, 1931-1945 -- v. 3. Economics and finance, 1931-1945 -- v. 4. Social, cultural, and intellectual factors, 1931-1945.
v. 1. Politics in Japan, 1931-1945. Part 1. Contemporary essays. Party battles in Japan / Shigeharu Matsumoto -- Dissolve the political parties / Yosuké Matsuoka -- Japan governed by "the Camp" / H. Vere Redman -- Fascist tendencies in Japan / Emil Lederer -- Recent Japanese politics / Charles B. Fahs -- Manchoukuo, precursor of Asiatic renaissance and the government by Wang-tao (Kingly Way) based on theocracy / Fumimaro Konoye -- The changing status of the cabinet in Japan / Yasuchi Sekiguchi -- Japan as a totalitarian state / Kenneth W. Colegrove -- Open discussion : "Japan as a totalitarian state" / Minoru Uchida -- Problems of Japanese administration in Korea / Tadao Yanaihara -- Observations on fascism in Japan / T.A. Bisson -- The new national structure / Hotsumi Ozaki -- Liberalism in Japan / George Sansom -- The military and the government in Japan / Chitoshi Yanaga -- Bureaucratic Japan / Charles Nelson Spinks -- The "ethical elevation" of Japanese politics / Andrew J. Grajdanzev -- The Japanese high command : part one / Ben Bruce Blakeney -- Part 2. Historical essays. Women's rights and society's needs : Japan's 1931 suffrage bill / Sharon H. Nolte -- Tenkō : Marxism and the national question in prewar Japan / Germaine A. Hoston --The army as a bureaucracy : Japanese militarism revisited / Shinʼichi Kitaoka -- Fascism from below? A comparative perspective on the Japanese right, 1931-1936 / Gregory J. Kasza -- Nationalist extremism in early Shōwa Japan : Inoue Nisshō and the 'Blood-Pledge Corps Incident', 1932 / Stephen S. Large -- Kita Ikki and the politics of coercion / Christopher W.A. Szpilman --The Shōwa Emperor and the end of the Manchurian crisis / Ian Nish.
v. 2. Foreign policy and diplomacy, 1931-1945. Part 1. Contemporary essays. Japan and the Manchurian question / Yukio Ozaki -- Japan, the League of Nations, and the Peace Pact / Inazo Nitobe -- The problem of Manchuria / Lord Lytton -- World peace machinery and the Asian Monroe Doctrine / Yasaka Takaki -- A Japanese view of the Manchurian situation / Hirosi Saito -- The permanent bases of Japanese foreign policy / Kikujiro Ishii -- Russo-Japanese friction / Malcolm Kennedy -- The aims of Japan / Reijiro Wakatsuki -- Anglo-Japanese relations / Keishiro Matsui -- Japan to-day and to-morrow / Yusuke Tsurumi -- A Japanese view of the struggle in the Far East / Kenzo Takayanagi -- Future relations between Japan and China / Naotaké Sato -- Preparing for a new world order / Toshio Shiratori -- Japan's new order in the Pacific / William Magistretti -- Part 2. Historical essays. The Soviet factor in Japanese foreign policy, 1923-1937 / Tetsuya Sakai -- Containing the crisis : Japan's diplomatic offensive in the West, 1931-33 / Sandra Wilson -- Japan's economic security and the origins of the Pacific War / Michael A. Barnhart -- The Japanese Navy and the development of southward expansion / Sumio Hatano -- Japanese approaches to China in the 1930s : two alternatives / Katsumi Usui -- A reconsideration of the Marco Polo Bridge Incident / James B. Crowley -- The road to Sino-Japanese collaboration : the background to the defection of Wang Ching-wei / John Hunter Boyle -- The shock of the atomic bomb and Japan's decision to surrender : a reconsideration / Sadao Asada.
v. 3. Economics and finance, 1931-1945. Part 1. Contemporary essays. Our stricken agriculture / Shigeichi Mayeda -- The political and economic position of Japan / G.C. Allen -- Japan's balance of trade / R.S. Sayers -- Export control in Japan / William W. Lockwood, Jr. and M. Matsuo -- Mineral deficiency versus self-sufficiency in Japan / Catherine Portner -- Japanese industrialization and the British Empire / Isoshi Asahi -- The Japanese state as industrialist and financier / M. Matsuo -- The recent monetary policy of Japan / Eigo Fukai -- Pygmy factories : the backbone of Japanese industry / Miriam S. Farley -- Japanese state finance / Günther Stein -- Manchukuo's new economic policy / Nagaharu Yasuo -- Policy centralization in Japan under the Kokutai principle / William H. Taylor and Robert A. Brady -- Japanese war economy / Kurt Bloch -- Japan's oil supplies / Louis E. Frechtling -- Japan's "New Economic Structure" / H.T. Oshima -- Part 2. Historical essays. Japan's rural economy in crisis / Ann Waswo -- Female migration and the farm family economy in interwar Japan / Janet Hunter -- The Great Depression in Japan : why was it so short? / Toru Iwami, Tetsuji Okazaki and Hiroshi Yoshikawa -- Takahashi Korekiyo's economic policies in the Great Depression and their Meiji roots / Richard J. Smethurst -- Intra-Asian trade and East Asia's industrialisation, 1919-1939 / Kaoru Sugihara -- Japan's economic expansion in the Netherlands Indies between the First and Second World Wars / Howard Dick -- The economies of Japanese imperialism in Korea, 1910-1939 / Mitsuhiko Kimura -- Economic mobilization in wartime Japan : business, bureaucracy, and military in conflict / Richard Rice -- Technocratic visions of empire : technology bureaucrats and the "New Order for Science-Technology" / Janis Mimura.
v. 4. Social, cultural and intellectual factors, 1931-1945. Part 1. Contemporary essays. Japan's population problem / Hugh Byas -- Japanese emigration to Brazil / J.F. Normano -- The national character of the Japanese / Nyozekan Hasegawa -- Cultural relations with Japan / Baron Dan -- Japanese sensibility / Samuel I. Hayakawa -- Population and conquest / Freda Utley -- State and education / Sadao Araki -- Cinema censorship in Japan / Tokuji Seno -- The theory of an East Asiatic unity / Tetsuji Kada -- Our women in the emergency / Tsuyoshi Miyao -- Recent trends in Japanese political thought / Chitoshi Yanaga -- The T'ai Chi symbol in Japanese war propaganda / David Nelson Rowe -- A pan-Asiatic union : a Japanese conception / Shingoro Takaishi -- Understanding and misunderstanding Japan / Galen M. Fisher -- Japanese emigration and Japan's "population pressure" / F.A. Rager -- Japan's psychological war / Selden C. Menefee -- Part 2. Historical essays. State and religion in imperial Japan, 1912-1945 / Sheldon M. Garon -- Marketing the modern : department stores, consumer culture, and the new middle class in interwar Japan / Louise Young -- Women and war in Japan, 1937-45 / Thomas R.H. Havens -- Juvenile delinquency and the national defense state : policing young workers in wartime Japan, 1937-1945 / David R. Ambaras -- Japanese literature and politics in the 1930s / Donald Keene -- Culture in Japanese foreign affairs / Akira Iriye -- Imperialism without colonies : the vision of a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere / Peter Duus -- Rationalizing the Orient : "East Asia Cooperative Community" in prewar Japan / Han Jung-Sun -- The Nishida enigma : 'The Principle of the New World Order' / Yoko Arisaka.