Janis Mimura

My main point in examining this monograph was to get some insight into the roots of post-war Japanese politics and economic policy but before that one is going to learn rather more about the higher-level office politics of the Japanese empire than one might have wanted. It's also late in the book until Mimura alludes to the criminality that the Japanese government descended into in the course of trying to redeem its play for a self-contained empire on the Asian mainland, which the government technocrats were enthusiastic supporters of due to the prospects for enhanced authority that it held out for them vis-a-vis the traditional business and bureaucratic centers of power; these aspirant high-level economic managers were the real enthusiasts of fascism in Japanese society. While one's eyes might glaze over at all the hair-splitting between the various factions involved this book is still significant for detailing the milieu that Kishi Nobusuke, founder of the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party, and erstwhile war criminal, emerged from.… (más)