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

Japan and the World Since 1868 (International Relations and the Great Powers) by Barnhart, Michael A.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780340528587.

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.