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...Ben-Ami Shillony Fragile Victory. Prince Saionji and the 1930 London Naval Treaty. From the Memoirs of Baron Harada Kumao . Translated By Thomas Francis Mayer-Oakes , with introduction and annotations. Detroit : Wayne State University Press , 1968 . 330 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Index...

...Jackson H. Bailey Abstract Saionji Kimmochi was often called the last bulwark against complete usurpation of power in the civil government by the Japanese military in the early and middle 1930's. As the last of the Genrō he represented also leadership which had developed in the Meiji period...

...David A. Titus The Emperor's Adviser: Saionji Kinmochi and Pre-war Japanese Politics . By Lesley Connors . London : Croom Helm , 1987 . 224 pp. $55.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 372 T H E J O U R N A L OF A S I A N S T U D I E S anything less...

... involved. RICHARD SMETHURST University of Pittsburgh Fragile Victory. Prince Saionji and the 1930 London Naval Treaty. From the Memoirs of Baron Harada Kumao. TRANSLATED BY THOMAS FRANCIS MAYER-OAKES, with introduction and annotations. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1968. 330 pp. Appendixes...

... REVIEWS JAPAN 373 Connors also makes it clear that Saionji was committed to the development of enlightened democracy in Japan. That commitment did not necessarily mean support for political parties and party government. If party leaders did not measure up to his standards of enlightened international...

... IMTFE, July 5, 1946. 1954. 63 Takamiya, 47–48. 64 Harada, I, 9–10. 60 Mori, 19. 59 Ibid , 1404. 58 Harada Kumao , Saionji Kō; to Seikyoku , Vol. II , ( Tō;kyō; , 1950 ), 67 – 68 . Takamiya, 81–82. IMTFE, June 26, 1946. 1441–43. 57...

... of Massachusetts, Boston The Emperor's Adviser: Saionji Kinmochi and Pre-war Japanese Politics. By L E S LEY CONNORS. London: Croom Helm, 1987. 224 pp. $55.00. Lesley Connors clearly states her intention "to substitute for the bland and passive public persona attributed to Saionji Kinmochi (1849-1940) a picture...

... attempted in these studies of five men who were important in shaping modern Japan: ltd Hirobumi, Okuma Shigenobu, Hara Takashi, Inukai Tsuyoshi, and Saionji Kinmochi. "My purpose was not to write short biographies or to pass judgment on them. . . . Rather, the five chapters of this book are case studies...

... sympathy for socialism. More significantly, in view of his subsequent career, it alienated him from Japan's political parties. Influenced by Saionji Kinmochi, Konoe involved himself for a time in the Seiyukai, yet he ultimately dismissed the parties and the parliamentary system as "useless" (p. 35...

.... 26 Ibid., p. 137; and Saionji-Harada Memoirs , August, 3, 1933. 27 Itō Masanori, Gunbatsu kōbō-shi , II, pp. 226–227. 28 That the majority of officers in Central Headquarters agreed with Umezu, Tōjō, and Nagata that the Soviet Union constituted the major threat is clearly...

... points that we should note in regard to this policy decision. At the time of his appointment as Foreign Minister in the second Saionji Cabinet, Uchida Yasuya was Ambassador to the United States. He was returning to Japan when he heard the news of the Wuchang Revolution aboard ship. Upon arriving in Tokyo...

... of groups and attitudes within Japan which were to be of vital importance in the following twenty years. The chief protagonists in the dispute over Japanese policy in 1918 were the Choshu faction, headed by Yamagata, on the one hand, and a small group centering on the genro Saionji and the leader...

..., such as: "Proceedings" of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East; "Japanese Foreign Office Archives"; Documents on German Foreign Policy, 1918-1945; Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939-1941; Ciano Diaries; Ciano's Diplomatic Papers; "Kido Diary"; and Saionji-Harada Memoirs which is now available in the 9-volume...

... Military Tribunal for the Far East; "Japanese Foreign Office Archives"; Documents on German Foreign Policy, 1918-1945; Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939-1941; Ciano Diaries; Ciano's Diplomatic Papers; "Kido Diary"; and Saionji-Harada Memoirs which is now available in the 9-volume work, Saionji-ko to seikyoku...

... Saionji and the leader of the Seiyukai party, Hara Kei, on the other. The former, with its main strength in the Army and some allies in the Foreign Ministry, were primarily concerned with Japan's position in East Asia, which led them to urge military and political intervention on the mainland. Saionji...

..., on August 6, in Tokyo by Vice-Minister of War Sugiyama. See Taiheiyō Sensō , I, 356–357. 34 Kumao Harada , Saionji-kō to Seikyokfu [Prince Saionji and the Political Situation], II ( Tokyo , 1950 ), 18 – 19 . 35 This plan was independent of the one prepared by Ishihara who...

... of the Japanese polity. These two factors meshed nicely in the thought of those, like Prince Saionji, who advocated constitutional monarchy, and others, like Fukuzawa, whose initial faith in natural law and human progress yielded to pessimism about the human condition. Prince Saionji, of kuge (court nobility...

... of individuals and nations as a means of furthering human capacity made him an effective critic of the Japanese educational system's growing rigidity and insularity, then the controversial initiatives taken by Saionji Kinmochi (1849-1940) scion of a Kyoto noble family who twice served as minister of education...

... a possibility that Arisugawa would dissent from his presidential colleagues when the issue of the constitution was raised within the government in 1881. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 2 Yosabur Takekoshi ō, Tōankō. Saionji Kimmochi Kō Den [Biography...

... and admirals on active duty. In December 1912, the Saionji cabinet was forced to disband by the resignation of the army minister and the army's refusal to nominate a replacement. Prime Minister Saionji was succeeded by Katsura, a favorite of the military, but he had difficulty forming a cabinet and his attempt...