Japan and the World Since 1868 (International Relations and the Great Powers)

About this book

Japans position as a major power in international affairs is recent but the changes it has gone through during even so short a time have been immense. How to account for its progress from prudence through folly to present success is the enquiry at the core of Michael Barnharts study. He provides a masterly account of the domestic pressures that often helped shape foreign policy as well as an evaluation of the changing world order itself.