Planning for Empire: Reform Bureaucrats and the Japanese Wartime State Mimura JanisPaperback
Planning for Empire: Reform Bureaucrats and the Japanese Wartime State Mimura JanisPaperback Japan's invasion of Manchuria in September of 1931 initiated a new phase of brutal occupation and warfare…
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Planning for Empire: Reform Bureaucrats and the Japanese Wartime State Mimura JanisPaperback
Japan's invasion of Manchuria in September of 1931 initiated a new phase of brutal occupation and warfare in Asia and the Pacific. In Planning for Empire, Janis Mimura traces the origins and evolution of this new order and the ideas and policies of its chief architects, the reform bureaucrats. It forwarded the project of remaking the Japanese state along technocratic and fascistic lines and creating a self-sufficient Asian bloc centered on Japan and its puppet state of Manchukuo.
The reform bureaucrats pursued a radical, authoritarian vision of modern Japan in which public and private spheres were fused, ownership and control of capital were separated, and society was ruled by technocrats.Mimura shifts our attention away from reactionary young officers to state planners--reform bureaucrats, total war officers, new zaibatsu leaders, economists, political scientists,