Japan and the Great War

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Japan and the Great War

   1. Introduction: Japan and the Great War

      • Oliviero Frattolillo, Antony Best

      Pages 1-10

3. International Aspects

   1. Front Matter

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   2. The Great War in China and Japan

      • Xu Guoqi

      Pages 13-35

   3. Japan’s First World War-Era Diplomacy, 1914–15

      • Naraoka Sōchi

      Pages 36-51

   4. Britain, Japan, and the Crisis over China, 1915–16

      • Antony Best

      Pages 52-70

   5. The Christian Habitus of Japan’s Interwar Diplomacy

      • Kevin M. Doak

      Pages 71-90

4. Domestic and Long-Term Aspects

   1. Front Matter

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   2. The Siberian Intervention and Japanese Society

      • Keishi Ono

      Pages 93-115

   3. Rethinking Japanese Taxation in the Wake of the Great War

      • Andrea Revelant

      Pages 116-141

   4. Japan’s Great War as a Response to Western Hegemony

      • Oliviero Frattolillo

      Pages 142-161

   5. The First World War, Japan, and a Global Century

      • Frederick R. Dickinson

      Pages 162-182

5. Back Matter

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In this book, seven internationally renowned experts on Japanese and Asian history have come together to investigate, with innovative methodological approaches, various aspects of the Japanese experience during and after the First World War.

• Japan and WWI
• East Asia's International History
• Asian history
• China
• First World War
• international history
• Japan

• ‘L’Orientale’, University of Naples, Italy

  Oliviero Frattolillo

• London School of Economics, UK

  Antony Best

Oliviero Frattolillo is Assistant Professor at 'L'Orientale' University of Napoli, Italy. He is Visiting Scholar at the Department of Law of Keio University in Tokyo, Japan, and Associate Member of the Cluster of Excellence 'Asia and Europe in a Global Context" (Karl Jaspers Centre, Heidelberg University, Germany). Among his works are Il Giappone tra Est e Ovest. La ricerca di un ruolo internazionale nell'era bipolare (2014), Diplomacy in Japan-EU Relations. From the Cold War to the Post-Bipolar Era, (2013) and Interwar Japan Beyond the West. The Search For A New Subjectivity in World History (2012).

Antony Best is Associate Professor at the London School of Economics, UK. His main fields of research interests lie in Anglo-Japanese relations, the origins of the Pacific War; the international history of East Asia; the history of modern Japan, and intelligence and International history.

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