Rise and Evolution of Meiji Japan

Considered a doyen of Meiji studies, particularly in the field of the newspaper press in Japan, former journalist Jim Huffman and H. Orth Hirt Professor of History [Emeritus] at Wittenberg University, was recently honoured (2017) with the Distinguished Service Award by the Association of Asian Studies (AAS), marking his outstanding scholarship and service in the field of Asian Studies. Huffman is the author of eight acclaimed books, including Creating a Public: People and Press in Meiji Japan, A Yankee in Meiji Japan : The Crusading Journalist Edward H. House, Japan: A History in Documents and most recently Down and Out in Late Meiji Japan. Supported by an introductory mini memoir, this collection of Huffman's writings comprises thirty journal papers and scholarly essays, thematically structured under (1) Media, (2) Society, Culture and Environment, and (3) Democracy, Government and Nationalism. Part 4 offers a selection from his portfolio of book reviews. The Rise and Evolution of Meiji Japan provides a valuable one-stop access to the scholarship of Jim Huffman that both complements and enhances his existing published works.

List of contents

Foreword, Introduction, Part I: Media History, 1. Managing the News: Fukuchi Gen'ichir? Attempts to Balance Two Worlds, 2. Japan's First Newspaper Law: The Emergence of the Press as an Independent Voice, 3. Freedom and the Press in Meiji-Taish? Japan, 4. Commercialization and the Changing World of the Mid-Meiji Press, 5. The Meiji Roots and Contemporary Practice of the Japanese Press, 6. In Retrospect (Creating a Public: People and Press in Meiji Japan), 7. Edward Howard House: In the Service of Meiji Japan, 8. That 'Naughty Yankee Boy,' Edward H. House and Meiji Japan's Struggle for Equality, 9. Edward H. House: Questions of Meaning and Influence, 10. Selected Writings of E.H. House: Introduction, 11. Introduction (Japanese Episodes), Part II: Society, Culture & Environment, 12. The Faces of Meiji, 13. Looking Both Ways: The Use of Meiji Travel Literature in the Classroom, 14. Nation v. People: Ashio and Japan's First Environmental Crisis, 15. Introduction (Down and Out in Late Meiji Japan), 16. Poverty in Late Meiji Japan: It Mattered Where You Lived, 17. The Idioms of Contemporary Japan XI: Kinmyaku-Jinmyaku, 18. Japanese Society in the Twentieth Century Part III: Democracy, Government & Nationalism, 19. Restoration and Revolution, 20. Meiji 1-10: Takeoff Time for Modern Japan, 21. The Popular Rights Debate: Political or Ideological?, 22. Nationalism and the Taming of Japan's Early Twentieth Century Press, 23. Yasukuni Shrine on the Silver Screen: Spirits of the State Part IV: Selected Reviews, 24. Alistar Swale, The Meiji Restoration: Monarchism, Mass Communication and Conservative Revolution, 25. Eiko Siniawer, Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists: The Violent Politics of Modern Japan, 26. David L. Howell, Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan, 27. Sarah Thal, Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods: The Politics of a Pilgrimage Site in Japan, 1573-1912, 28. Alexis Dudden, Japan's Colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power, 29. Donald Keene, Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 30. Robert B. Marks, The Origins of the Modern World, 31. Marius B. Jansen, The Making of Modern Japan, 32. Joseph Henning, Outposts of Civilization: Race, Religion, and the Formative Years of American-Japanese Relations, 33. Yoshitake Oka, Five Political Leaders of Modern Japan: It? Hirobumi, ?kuma Shigenobu, Hara Takashi, Inukai Tsuyoshi, and Saionji Kimmochi, Notes, Index

About the author

Considered a doyen of Meiji studies, particularly in the field of the newspaper press in Japan, former journalist Jim Huffman and H. Orth Hirt Professor of History [Emeritus] at Wittenberg University, was recently honoured (2017) with the Distinguished Service Award by the Association of Asian Studies (AAS), marking his outstanding scholarship and service in the field of Asian Studies. Huffman is the author of eight acclaimed books, including Creating a Public: People and Press in Meiji Japan, A Yankee in Meiji Japan : The Crusading Journalist Edward H. House, Japan: A History in Documents and most recently Down and Out in Late Meiji Japan. Considered a doyen of Meiji studies, particularly in the field of the newspaper press in Japan, former journalist Jim Huffman and emeritus professor of History at Wittenberg University, was recently honoured (2017) with the Distinguished Service Award by the Association of Asian Studies (AAS), marking his outstanding scholarship and service in the field of Asian Studies. He has also received three Fulbright Awards and was the recipient of the Ohio Academy of History's Distinguished Teaching Award.

Product details

• Authors: James Huffmann
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2025
• EAN: 9781041189008
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4118900-8
• No. of pages: 444
• Series: Distinguished Asian Studies Scholars: Collected Writings
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Japan, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Asian History