Ebook: Democracy and the Party Movement in Prewar Japan: The Failure of the First Attempt

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
I. THE TOKUGAWA BACKGROUND
II. PARTY EMERGENCE AND THE PHILOSOPHIC STRUGGLE WITH THE GOVERNMENT
III. THE POPULAR BASIS OF EARLY JAPANESE PARTIES
IV. THE NATURE OF EARLY PARTY ORGANIZATION AND TACTICS
V. THE EVOLUTION OF POLITICAL PARTIES IN JAPANESE INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE AND THEORY, 1890-1913
VI. THE EVOLUTION OF POLITICAL PARTIES IN JAPANESE INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE AND THEORY, 1913-1932
VII. THE DEVELOPMENT OF JAPANESE CAPITALISM AND ITS IMPACT ON THE PARTY MOVEMENT
VIII. THE RISE AND DECLINE OF THE LEFT
IX. THE MILITARIST ERA AND PARTY COLLAPSE
X. THE PROBLEM OF JAPANESE DEMOCRACY