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Interwar Liberalism and the Japanese Empire - An Imperial Path to Modernity: Yoshino Sakuzō and a New Liberal Order in East Asia, 1905–1937. By Jung-Sun N. Han. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2014. 244 pp. ISBN 9780674065710 (cloth). - Beyond the Western Liberal Order: Yanaihara Tadao and Empire as Society. By Ryoko Nakano. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. xi, 202 pp. ISBN 9781137290502 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2016

Kyu Hyun Kim*
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University of California, Davis
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6 Arima Tatsuo, The Failure of Freedom: A Portrait of Modern Japanese Intellectuals (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969); Bernard Silberman and Harry D. Harootunian, eds., Japan in Crisis: Essays on Taisho Democracy (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1974).

7 Hirai Atsuko, Individualism and Socialism: The Life and Thought of Kawai Eijirō (1891–1944) (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986); Sheldon Garon, The State and Labor in Modern Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987); Sharon Nolte, Liberalism in Modern Japan: Ishibashi Tanzan and His Teachers, 1905–1960 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987); Andrew Barshay, The State and Intellectual in Imperial Japan: The Public Man in Crisis (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988); Miriam Silverberg, Changing Song: the Marxist Manifestos of Nakano Shigeharu (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990).

8 Andrew Gordon, Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991).

9 Furukawa Eriko 古川江里子, Minobe Tatsukichi to Yoshino Sakuzō 美濃部達吉と吉野作造 [Minobe Tatsukichi and Yoshino Sakuzo] (Tokyo: Yamakawa shuppansha, 2011).

10 Matsuo Takayoshi 松尾尊兊, Taishō demokurashii 大正デモクラシー [Taisho democracy] (Tokyo: Iwanami shoten, 1974); Matsuo Takayoshi, Minponshugi to teikokushugi [Minponshugi and imperialism] 民本主義と帝国主義 (Tokyo: Misuzu shobō, 1998).

11 Cf. Steven B. Smith, Hegel's Critique of Liberalism: Rights in Context (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989); Charles Taylor, Philosophical Arguments (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997).

12 Susan Townsend, Yanaihara Tadao and Japanese Colonial Policy: Redeeming Empire (Surrey, U.K.: Curzon Press, 2000).

13 Wolin, Richard, “‘Modernity’: The Peregrinations of a Contested Historiographical Concept,” American Historical Review 116, no. 3 (2011): 745CrossRefGoogle Scholar.