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REVERSE EMULATION AND THE CULT OF JAPANESE EFFICIENCY IN EDWARDIAN BRITAIN

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2016

CHIKA TONOOKA
CHIKA TONOOKA*
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Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge
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Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, cb2 1ta[email protected]
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Abstract

This article considers a particular moment in world history when an instant of epoch-making triumph in the non-West – Japan's defeat of Russia in 1905 – coincided with a period of intense national anxiety in Britain in the wake of the South African War (1899–1902). One outcome of this historical intersection was the emergence in Britain of a euphoric ‘cult of Japan’ that saw many Edwardians, obsessed with the idea of ‘efficiency’, deploy Japan as both a referent for British shortcomings and a model for reform. The article asks why proponents of ‘efficiency’ – most of them ardent imperialists – deemed it acceptable, even strategically advantageous, in such domestic debates to draw upon examples from Japan – an ‘Oriental’ race and former protégé – in apparent contradiction of Western supremacism. The article contends that Britain's emulative attitudes were underpinned by an emergent plural conception of ‘civilization’, which appraised Japan's attainment of civilization as consistent with Western standards whilst at the same time recognizing elements of Japanese particularity – an outlook that justified reciprocal learning.

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The Historical Journal , Volume 60 , Issue 1 , March 2017 , pp. 95 - 119
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* The author would like to thank Peter Mandler, Harumi Goto-Shibata, Riho Isaka, David Motadel, Kaz Oishi, and the anonymous referees for their advice and comments on the article in its various stages of development. The research presented in this article was first started at the University of Tokyo, and forms part of the author's doctoral project on Japanese ‘civilization’ and conceptions of ‘progress’ in British thought and culture, c. 1880–1945, supported by the Cambridge Commonwealth, European & International Trust.

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