Rioters and Citizens Mass Protest in Imperial Japan 1st edition by Michael Lewis 9780520311015 0520311019
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ISBN 10: 0520311019
ISBN 13: 9780520311015
Author: Michael Lewis
On 22 July 1918 a group of Japanese fishermen’s wives met in a small village on the coast to discuss what they could do to lower the spiraling cost of rice. This peaceful meeting gave rise to the 1918 race riots, a series of mass demonstrations and armed clashes that spread rapidly throughout the country on a scale unprecedented in modern Japanese history. In this penetrating study, Michael Lewis questions standard historical interpretations of the riots. What political significance did the riots have in the communities where they occurred? How and why did protest change from region to region or when carried out by different groups? How did officials, community leaders, and businessmen cope with the unrest? What effects did the riots have on national and local political relations and economic ties among these various groups? Lewis argues that the 1918 protests defy a single typology–urban and rural protests had different causes, patterns, forms of mediation, and resolutions. In 1918 Meiji leaders had been struggling for fifty years to create a new citizenry, unified ideologically and consistently supportive of national goals. The disunity revealed by the riots does not suggest that Japan had become polarized between the people and the state; rather, in the wake of the riots, new forms of social policy and public political involvement became possible. In analyzing the changing traditions of Japanese popular protest in the transition from a rural to an industrial economy, Rioters and Citizens suggests that the diversity of Japanese protests necessitates a rethinking of the stereotypical images of prewar Japanese society as blandly uniform and rigidly controlled by government ideology. It further suggests that in Japan, as in Europe, the action of the unenfranchised crowd came to influence the course of political and social change. This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.
Rioters and Citizens Mass Protest in Imperial Japan 1st Table of contents:
Introduction
ONE The 1918 Nationwide Riots Mass Protest, Political Parties, and State Response
The Terauchi Government’s Grain Policy
Rioting and Suppression
The “Candy and Whip” Policy
TWO Traditional Protest Along the Toyama Coast Smoke from a steamship offshore means rice will cost one sen more.
Workers and Wages: Toyama 1918
The “Women’s Uprising”
Official Response to Tokugawa and Meiji Protests
Relief Efforts, 1918 and 1919: Namerikawa-machi
Conclusion
THREE The City Riots Mass Protest and Taisho Democracy
The Nagoya Riots
Rioting in Other Cities
Issues Fueling Protest: Traitorous Merchants, Government Malfeasance, and Citizens* Rights
Rioters and Citizens: City Protest and Political Integration
Burakumin, Socialists, and Yakuza
Postriot Changes in Urban Social Policy
Conclusion
FOUR The Rural Riots Consumer Protests and Tenant-Landlord Riots
The Furuichi Riots: Farmers, Button Makers, and New Money
Relief and Prosecution
Other Kansai Protests
Rioters, Local Organizations, and the Consequences of Protest
Tenant-Landlord Riots: Hōryūji, Nara
The Absence of Protest in the Tohoku Region
Conclusion
FIVE The Coalfield Riots Riot as Labor Dispute
The 1918 Coalfield Riots
The Pattern of Protest
Organization, Negotiations, and Protest Targets
Postriot Changes in Company Operations and Incipient Unionism
Conclusion
SIX Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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