{"product_id":"power-and-dissent-in-imperial-japan-three-forms-of-political-engagement-9788776941185","title":"Power and Dissent in Imperial Japan: Three Forms of Political Engagement","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Hiromi Sasamoto-Collins\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Asia - Japan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume examines the careers and intellectual positions of three prominent Japanese \"dissidents\" in the later Imperial period--Minobe Tatsukichi, Sakai Toshihiko, and Saitō Takao--as individual responses to the new forms of authority that appeared after the Meiji Restoration of 1868. The principles to which each adhered--the rule of law, socialist egalitarianism, and representative government--contributed to the new ideas about authority and the individual in post-Restoration Japan. They also remain fundamental (at least in theory) in today's Japanese polity and society. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe study reaffirms the serious limitations of the pre-war Japanese political system, its structural and institutional problems, and deep-rooted ambivalence about democratic change.","brand":"Nordic Institute of Asian Studies","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47890842157207,"sku":"9788776941185","price":2293.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9788776941185.webp?v=1781181554","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/power-and-dissent-in-imperial-japan-three-forms-of-political-engagement-9788776941185","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}