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Chapter Title: Front Matter Book Title: Political Development in Modern Japan: Studies in the Modernization of Japan Book Editor(s): Robert E. Ward Published by: Princeton University Press Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt13x17vb.1 JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at https://about.jstor.org/terms Princeton University Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Political Development in Modern Japan: Studies in the Modernization of Japan This content downloaded from (cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)130.126.162.126 on Sat, 19 Dec 2020 07:02:10 UTC(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0) All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from (cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)130.126.162.126 on Sat, 19 Dec 2020 07:02:10 UTC(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0) All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IN MODERN JAPAN This content downloaded from (cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)130.126.162.126 on Sat, 19 Dec 2020 07:02:10 UTC(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0) All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms This is the fourth in a series of six volumes published by Princeton University Press for the Conference on Modern Japan of the Association for Asian Studies, Inc. The others in the series are: Changing Japanese Attitudes Toward Modernization, edited by Marius B. Jansen (1965) The State and Economic Enterprise in Japan, edited by William W. Lockwood (1965) Aspects of Social Change in Modern Japan, edited by R. P. Dore (1967) Tradition and Modernization in Japanese Culture, edited by Donald Shively Dilemmas of Growth in Prewar Japan, edited by James Morley This content downloaded from (cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)130.126.162.126 on Sat, 19 Dec 2020 07:02:10 UTC(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0) All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Political Development in Modern Japan Edited by Robert E. Ward CONTRIBUTORS ARDATH W. BURKS TAKESHI ISHIDA ALBERT M. CRAIG MARIUS B. JANSEN ROGER F. HACKETT ROBERT A. SCALAPINO JOHN WHITNEY HALL BERNARD S. SILBERMAN DAN FENNO HENDERSON KURT STEINER NOBUTAKA IKE KIYOAKI TSUJI ROBERT E. WARD PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY This content downloaded from (cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)130.126.162.126 on Sat, 19 Dec 2020 07:02:10 UTC(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0) All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Copyright © 1968 by Princeton University Press ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 66-14309 ISBN 0-691-00017-4 (paperback edn.) ISBN 0-691-03045-6 (hardcover edn.) Printed in the United States of America by Princeton University Press at Princeton, New Jersey First PRINCETON PAPERBACK Edition, 1973 This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise disposed of without the publisher's consent, in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published. This content downloaded from (cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)130.126.162.126 on Sat, 19 Dec 2020 07:02:10 UTC(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0) All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Chapter Title: Foreword Chapter Author(s): John Whitney Hall Book Title: Political Development in Modern Japan: Studies in the Modernization of Japan Book Editor(s): Robert E. Ward Published by: Princeton University Press Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt13x17vb.2 JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at https://about.jstor.org/terms Princeton University Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Political Development in Modern Japan: Studies in the Modernization of Japan This content downloaded from (cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)130.126.162.126 on Sat, 19 Dec 2020 07:02:30 UTC(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0) All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Foreword CHOLARLY STUDIES of Japan have had a remarkable growth in the United States and other English-speaking countries since the end of World War II. To some extent this has been the natural result of the popular boom of interest in Japan stimulated by the war and its aftermath and by the increased opportunities which Westerners had to asso ciate with the Japanese people. But it is more directly the result of the spread of academic programs devoted to Japan and par ticularly the growing number of specialists trained to handle the Japanese language. In the fall of 1958 a group of scholars gathered at the University of Michigan to seek some means of bringing to gether in more systematic fashion the results of the widely scattered studies of Japan which had appeared in the years since the end of the war. The Conference on Modern Japan which resulted from this meeting was dedicated both to the pooling of recent scholarly findings and to the possibility of stimulating new ideas and approaches to the study of modern Japan. Subsequently the Conference received a generous grant from the Ford Foundation for the support of a series of five annual seminars devoted to as many aspects of the history of Japan's modern development. Recently the number of seminars planned by the Conference was expanded to six. The Conference on Modern Japan exists as a special proj ect of the Association for Asian Studies. The Conference is guided by an executive committee consisting of Ronald P. Dore, Marius B. Jansen, William W. Lockwood, Donald H. Shively, Robert E. Ward, and John W. Hall (chairman). James W. Morley subsequently joined this group as the leader of the sixth seminar. Each member of the executive committee has been responsible for the organization of a separate seminar devoted to his particular field of specialization and for the publication of the proceedings of his seminar. This content downloaded from (cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)130.126.162.126 on Sat, 19 Dec 2020 07:02:30 UTC(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0) All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms FOREWORD Although the subject of modernization in the abstract is not of primary concern to the Conference, conceptual problems are inevitably of interest to the entire series of seminars. Be cause of this, two less formal discussions on the theory of modernization have also been planned as part of the Confer ence's program. The first of these was held in Japan during the summer of i960 and has been reported on as part of the first volume of published proceedings. The second will seek at the conclusion of our series to review whatever contributions to the realm of theory the six annual seminars may have made. The present volume edited by Robert E. Ward is the fourth in a series of six to be published by the Princeton University Press for the Conference on Modern Japan. The other vol umes, of which the first three have already appeared, are: Changing Japanese Attitudes toward Modernization, edited by Marius B. Jansen; The State and Economic Enterprise in Japan, edited by William W. Lockwood; Aspects of Social Change in Modern Japan, edited by Ronald P. Dore; Tra dition and Modernization in Japanese Culture, edited by Donald H. Shively; Dilemmas of Growth in Prewar Japan, edited by James W. Morley. As their titles suggest, the annual seminars have adopted broad themes so as to cast a wide net about a variety of scholars working within each of several major fields. Within these broad fields, however, the seminar chairmen have fo cused upon specific problems recommended either because they have received the greatest attention of Japanese specialists or because they seem most likely to contribute to a fuller under standing of the modernization of Japan. We trust, as a conse quence, that the six volumes taken together will prove both representative of the current scholarship on Japan and com prehensive in their coverage of one of the most fascinating stories of national development in modern history. The fourth meeting of the Conference on Modern Japan assembled in Bermuda in January 1965 under the chairman- This content downloaded from (cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)130.126.162.126 on Sat, 19 Dec 2020 07:02:30 UTC(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0) All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms FOREWORD ship of Professor Robert E. Ward. The subject of discussion was the political development of Japan. In all twenty-four American, Japanese, and English scholars participated in the conference. In addition to the writers of the papers presented in the body of the following text (who are identified in greater detail on pp. 605 to 606), the following individuals were present: Professors Hans Baerwald, University of Califor nia (Los Angeles); Ronald P. Dore, London School of Eco nomics and Political Science; Yoshinori Ide, Institute for So cial Science Research, Tokyo University; Hyman Kublin, Brooklyn College; William W. Lockwood, Princeton Uni versity; John M. Maki, University of Washington; Douglas H. Mendel, Jr., University of Wisconsin; James W. Morley, Columbia University; Lucian W. Pye, Massachusetts Insti tute of Technology; William E. Steslicke, University of Illi nois; and Chitoshi Yanaga, Yale University. All contributed most usefully to the discussion, and the editor and authors would like to express their gratitude to them. The purpose of the conference was to analyze the political aspects of the developmental process in Japan with a view to identifying the major agencies of developmental political change, describing their roles and interactions, and determin ing whether the Japanese experience might not suggest certain generalizations or hypotheses in this area that might then be subjected to comparative analysis and verification in other cultural and political settings. These goals involved certain initial assumptions about the nature and functioning of the process of political development that will be explained more fully in the Introduction. These initial assumptions are re sponsible for the structure of the book that has emerged from an extensive revision of the papers originally presented to the Conference. Given the present rather elementary state of our knowledge in this field, one cannot, of course, be certain as to even the identity of all the determinants of political develop ment. It seemed reasonable to assume, however, that we can identify at least some of the major variables concerned with a This content downloaded from (cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)130.126.162.126 on Sat, 19 Dec 2020 07:02:30 UTC(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0)(cid:0) All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms
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