Show simple item record

dc.contributor.authorHattori, Ryuji
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-15T16:01:35Z
dc.date.available2021-12-15T16:01:35Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifierONIX_20211215_9781760464974_4
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52035
dc.description.abstractThe question of how to maintain the continuity of diplomacy while developing democracy without military intervention is an old and new issue. The challenge can be described as a dilemma between democracy and diplomatic coherence. This dilemma is not unique to the twenty-first century; it has been a constant challenge to the development of democracy. In non-Western countries, democratisation originated in the nineteenth century and has had many successes and failures. After the Russo-Japanese War, political parties began to take power in Japan. The best embodiment of diplomacy in Japan's emerging democracy—the development of parliamentary democracy and mass-based democracy—is Shidehara Kijūrō (1872–1951), who served as foreign minister from 1924 to 1927 and from 1929 to 1931, and was prime minister from 1945 to 1946. As a diplomat from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Shidehara had long grappled with the issue of how to ensure diplomatic coherence in modern Japan, which was becoming increasingly democratic. Although Shidehara succeeded to some extent in promoting diplomacy in cooperation with the US and the UK under party politics, the rise of the military after the Manchurian Incident forced him to retire for a period. However, after the Pacific War, Shidehara became prime minister of the US-occupied Japan and attempted to restore cooperative diplomacy under party politics. Shidehara came to the conclusion that the way to achieve both democracy and diplomatic coherence was through nonpartisan diplomacy towards peace. This book examines the tension between diplomacy and democracy, focusing on Shidehara’s life and exploring modern Japan’s footsteps. Shidehara was undoubtedly one of Japan’s most important diplomatic figures.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999::3MPQ Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999en_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHW Military historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relationsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations::JPSD Diplomacyen_US
dc.subject.otherconstitution
dc.subject.otherWar
dc.subject.otherdiplomacy
dc.subject.otherPrime Minister
dc.subject.otherJapan
dc.titleJapan at War and Peace
dc.title.alternativeShidehara Kijūrō and the Making of Modern Diplomacy
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.22459/JWP.2021
oapen.relation.isPublishedByddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71
oapen.relation.isbn9781760464974
oapen.relation.isbn9781760464967
oapen.imprintANU Press
oapen.pages368
oapen.place.publicationCanberra


Files in this item

Thumbnail

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record