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If, as seems likely, Japan's 1975 GNP more than doubles the rest of Asia's, will it seek to build armed forces to match? For a reliable forecast, six policy specialists consider areas bearing on the path Japan takes. Drawing from the contributors' projections, James Motley concludes with a primary forecast of the security policy Japan is likely to follow in the early 1970's. Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press

Frontmatter --Contents --FOREWORD --CHAPTER I. Introduction: Choice and Consequence /Morley, James William --CHAPTER II. The Bureaucracy as a Political Force, 1920-45 /Spaulding, Robert M. --CHAPTER III. Retrogression in Japan's Foreign Policy Decision-Making Process /Hosoya, Chihiro --CHAPTER IV. The Failure of Military Expansionism /Iriye, Akira --CHAPTER V. The Radical Left and the Failure of Communism /Beckmann, George M. --CHAPTER VI. Rural Origins of Japanese Fascism /Dore, R.P. ; Ouchi, Tsutomu --CHAPTER VII. The Economic Muddle of the 1920's /Patrick, Hugh T. --CHAPTER VIII. Big Business and Politics in Prewar Japan /Tiedemann, Arthur E. --CHAPTER IX. Intellectuals as Visionaries of the New Asian Order /Crowley, James B. --CHAPTER X. Nakano Seigo and the Spirit of the Meiji Restoration in Twentieth-Century Japan /Najita, Tetsuo --CHAPTER XI. Ōyama Ikuo and the Search for Democracy /Duus, Peter --CHAPTER XII. Japan and Germany in the Interwar Period /Hayashi, Kentarō --CHAPTER XIII. What Went Wrong? /Reischauer, Edwin O. --CONTRIBUTORS --INDEX.

A thoroughly revised and updated edition of the highly regarded 1993 book ""Driven by Growth"", this work presents the political-economic evolution of the Asia-Pacific countries, with overviews of the impact of economic development on political change. This new edition now includes chapters on Burma and Vietnam. New authors have been added and all the original chapters have been revised