The Meiji Constitution the Japanese experience of the West and the shaping of the modern state 1st Edition by Takii Kazuhiro, David Noble ISBN 4924971200 9784924971202

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ISBN 10: 4924971200

ISBN 13: 9784924971202

Author: Takii Kazuhiro, David Noble

“This book is a detailed examination of the intellectual and cultural history that gave birth to Japan’s Meiji Constitution at the end of the nineteenth century. In this book, the author employs a cross-cultural perspective to analyze how modern Western ideas of constitutional government were assimilated and adapted by the newly established Meiji state. Japan’s leaders had witnessed the piecemeal devouring of Qing-dynasty China by the Western powers, and were determined that Japan should not suffer the same fate. they staked the future of their nation on a concerted effort to understand the political and legal structures that appeared to be the source of the strength and dynamism of Western civilization. The author relates how key leaders of Meiji Japan experienced the west through fact-finding missions and extended overseas travel and research and show how their international experience shaped the policies and character of the nation that they helped build. He looks beyond the constitution as a legal document and demonstrates how its architects used it and the supplementary laws and institutions supporting it to catalyze the emergence of a modern nation-state.” — BOOK JACKET.

Table of contents:

The Iwakura embassy: from the law of nations toward a constitution

• The journey begins

• Strange voyage

• Scenes from the tour

• The Iwakura embassy’s perspective on national institutions

Ito Hirobumi’s European research: from constitution as law to constitution as national structure

• The political crisis of 1881 and Ito’s return to Europe

• Melancholy in Berlin: heavy weather for the parliamentary system

• Resurrection in Vienna: awakening to “national structure”

• Later research

Yamagata Aritomo’s European tour: a different kind of constitutional research

• The promulgation of the Meiji constitution

• Yamagata Aritomo’s European study tour

• The other constitutional investigation

The Meiji constitution seen from abroad

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