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Geography and Japan's strategic choices :

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Geography and Japan's strategic choices :

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from seclusion to internationalization /

Peter J. Woolley.

1st ed.

Washington, D.C. :

Potomac Books, Inc.,

©2005.

1 online resource (xii, 203 pages) :

illustrations, maps

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-197) and index.

Geography and things uniquely Japanese -- East meets West -- Isolation versus engagement revisited -- From engagement to expansion -- From expansion to disaster -- Reconstruction and cold war -- Pacific powers : 1969-1989 -- Fin de Siècle and a new world disorder.

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"Geography, this author contends, is the indisputably unique feature of any country. Geography and Japan's Strategic Choices begins by explaining Japan's unique location and topography in comparison to other countries. Peter J. Woolley then examines the ways in which the country's political leaders in various eras understood and acted on those geographical limitations and advantages. Proceeding chronologically, he compares the Tokugawa era, the opening to the West, the Meiji Restoration, the long era of colonialization, industrialization and liberalization, the militarist reaction and World War II, the occupation, the Cold War, and finally the rudderless fin de siecle. Finally Woolley demonstrates how Japan's strategic situation in the twenty-first century is informed by past and present geostrategic calculations as well as by current domestic and international changes.

For students and scholars of U.S.-Japan relations and of Japanese history and politics, this book offers informed readers a fresh perspective on a critical international relationship."--Jacket.

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

Geography and Japan's strategic choices.

Geography & Japan's strategic choices

Geopolitics-- Japan.

Géopolitique-- Japon.

Außenpolitik

Diplomatic relations.

Geopolitics.

Geopolitik

Historical geography.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Essays.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Government-- General.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Government-- National.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Reference.

Politische Geografie

Strategic aspects of individual places.

Japan, Foreign relations, 20th century.

Japan, Historical geography.

Japan, Strategic aspects.

Japon, Aspect stratégique.

Japon, Géographie historique.

Japon, Relations extérieures, 20e siècle.

Japan.

Japan.

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