Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912.(Book Review)

The Historian | June 22, 2004| | Copyright

Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912. By Donald Keene. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 922. $39.50.)

In late 1867, the last of Japan's hereditary military overlords abdicated his position as shogun. Shortly thereafter, the young Meiji emperor ascended the throne, and in his name a great revolution ensued. The years of the Meiji emperor's long reign (1868-1912) are commonly regarded as having marked Japan's transition to modernity. That transition has been the subject of a large body of scholarly literature and popular writing, but the man ...

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