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Geography and Japan's Strategic Choices
Peter J. Woolley
其他書名
From Seclusion to Internationalization
出版Potomac Books, Inc., 2014-05-27
主題History / GeneralHistory / Asia / GeneralHistory / Asia / JapanPolitical Science / GeneralPolitical Science / International Relations / General
ISBN16123425749781612342573
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=PZsUvFZ0eBsC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Geography, this author contends, is the indisputably unique feature of any country. Geography and Japan's Strategic Choices begins by explaining Japan's unique location and topography in comparison to other countries. Peter Woolley then examines the ways in which the country's political leaders in various eras understood and acted on those geographical limitations and advantages. Proceeding chronologically through several distinct political eras, the book compares the Tokugawa era, the opening to the West, the Meiji Restoration, the long era of colonialization, industrialization and liberalization, the militarist reaction and World War II, the occupation, the Cold War, and finally the rudderless fin de siecle. Finally Woolley demonstrates how Japan's strategic situation in the twenty-first century is informed by past and present geo-strategic calculations as well as by current domestic and international changes. For students and scholars of U.S.-Japan relations and of Japanese history and politics, this book offers any informed reader a fresh perspective on a critical international relationship.