The Japanese Empire by S.C.M. Paine
Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War
A concise political and strategic history that traces Japan’s transformation from the Meiji Restoration through the Pacific War, analyzing how leaders pursued a grand strategy that balanced continental ambitions in Asia with maritime and resource imperatives. It examines the political, economic, military, and diplomatic choices that produced expansion, colonial rule, and eventual wartime defeat, arguing that geography, institutional constraints, and strategic dilemmas created patterns of continuity, miscalculation, and collapse. The study situates Japan’s imperial rise and fall in an international comparative context to explain how modernization gave way to aggressive expansion.
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- Published
- 2017
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Moderate
- Pages
- 392 pages
- Original Language
- English
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