Japan and Germany in the Modern World

First study of the fascinating parallelism that characterizes developments in Japan and Germany by one of Germany's leading Japan specialists.

With the founding of their respective national states, the Meiji Empire in 1869 and the German Reich in 1871, Japan and Germany entered world politics. Since then both countries have developed in strikingly similar ways, and it is not surprising that these two became close allies during the Second World War, although in the end this proved a "fatal attraction."

List of contents

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Fatal Affinities: the German Role in the Modernization of Japan in the Early Meiji Period (1868-1895) and its Aftermath

Chapter 2. Japan during the World Economic Crisis: Big Business and Social Unrest

Chapter 3. Three Forms of Fascism: Japan - Italy - Germany

Chapter 4. Germany and Pearl Harbor

Chapter 5. The German Japanese Alliance in the Second World War

Chapter 6. The Pacific War and the Twentieth Century

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Bernd Martin is Professor of History at the University of Freiburg.

Summary

First study of the fascinating parallelism that characterizes developments in Japan and Germany by one of Germany's leading Japan specialists.

Product details

• Authors: Bernd Martin
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.1995
• EAN: 9781571818584
• ISBN: 978-1-57181-858-4
• No. of pages: 330
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; History: 18th/19th Century, History: 20th Century to Present