Making Waves: Politics, Propaganda, and the Emergence of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1868-1922 Hardcover - 2005 - 1st Edition
by J. Charles Schencking
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ON A BRISK autumn day in November 1913, Prime Minister Yamamoto Gonnohyoe looked out to sea and smiled.
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This book explores the political emergence of the Imperial Japanese Navy between 1868 and 1922. It fundamentally challenges the popular notion that the navy was a 'silent, ' apolitical service. Politics, particularly budgetary politics, became the primary domestic focus--if not the overriding preoccupation--of Japan's admirals in the prewar period. This study convincingly demonstrates that as the Japanese polity broadened after 1890, navy leaders expanded their political activities to secure appropriations commensurate with the creation of a world-class blue-water fleet.
The navy's sophisticated political efforts included lobbying oligarchs, coercing cabinet ministers, forging alliances with political parties, occupying overseas territories, conducting well-orchestrated naval pageants, and launching spirited propaganda campaigns. These efforts succeeded: by 1921 naval expenditures equaled nearly 32 percent of the country's total budget, making Japan the world's third-largest maritime power. The navy, as this book details, made waves at sea and on shore, and in doing so significantly altered the state, society, politics, and empire in prewar Japan.
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This book explores the political emergence of the Imperial Japanese Navy between 1868 and 1922. It fundamentally challenges the popular notion that the navy was a 'silent, ' apolitical service. Politics, particularly budgetary politics, became the primary domestic focus--if not the overriding preoccupation--of Japan's admirals in the prewar period. This study convincingly demonstrates that as the Japanese polity broadened after 1890, navy leaders expanded their political activities to secure appropriations commensurate with the creation of a world-class blue-water fleet.
The navy's sophisticated political efforts included lobbying oligarchs, coercing cabinet ministers, forging alliances with political parties, occupying overseas territories, conducting well-orchestrated naval pageants, and launching spirited propaganda campaigns. These efforts succeeded: by 1921 naval expenditures equaled nearly 32 percent of the country's total budget, making Japan the world's third-largest maritime power. The navy, as this book details, made waves at sea and on shore, and in doing so significantly altered the state, society, politics, and empire in prewar Japan.
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- Title Making Waves: Politics, Propaganda, and the Emergence of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1868-1922
- Author J. Charles Schencking
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stanford University Press, USA
- Date 2005-01-18
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780804749770 / 0804749779
- Weight 1.18 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9.26 x 6.56 x 0.88 in (23.52 x 16.66 x 2.24 cm)
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Themes
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Asian - General
- Library of Congress subjects Japan - History, Japan - Politics and government - 1868-1912
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004010793
- Dewey Decimal Code 322.509
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