Pan-Asianism in Modern Japanese History

This in-depth volume analyzes various historical approaches to the construction of the regional order in East Asia, each of which can be seen as an expression of Pan-Asianist thought.

1. Pan-Asianism in Modern Japanese History: Overcoming the Nation, Creating a Region, Forging an Empire Part 1: Creating a Regional Identity: Ideal and Reality 2. Pan-Asianism in Modern Japan: Nationalism, Regionalism and Universalism 3. The Asianism of the Kôa-kai and the Ajia Kyôkai: Reconsidering the Ambiguity of Asianism 4. Universal Values and Pan-Asianism: the Vision of Ômotokyô 5. Pan-Asianism and National Reorganization: Japanese Perceptions of China and the United States, 1914-1919 Part 2: Regionalism, Nationalism and Ethnocentrism 6. Between Pan-Asianism and Nationalism: Mitsukawa Kametarô and his Campaign to Reform Japan and Liberate Asia 7. Forgotten Leaders of the Interwar Debate on Regional Integration: Introducing Sugimori Kôjirô 8. Were Women Pan-Asianists the Worst?: Internationalism and Pan-Asianism in the Careers of Inoue Hideko and Inoue Masaji Part 3: Creating a Regional Hegemony: Japans's Quest for a "New Order" 9. Visions of a Virtuous Manifest Destiny: Yasuoka Masahiro and Japan's Kingly Way 10. The Temporality of Empire: The Imperial Cosmopolitanism of Miki Kiyoshi and Tanabe Hajime 11. The Concept of Ethnic Nationality and its Role in Pan-Asianism in Imperial Japan Part 4: Pan-Asianism Adjusted: Wartime to Postwar 12. Constructing Destiny: Rôyama Masamichi and Asian Regionalism in Wartime Japan 13. The Postwar Intellectuals' View of "Asia" 14. Overcoming Colonialism in Bandung, 1955 15. Pan-Asianism in International Relations: Prewar, Postwar, and Present