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...Richard J. Smethurst Abstract In 1910, a group or army officers led by Tanaka Giichi founded die Imperial Military Reserve Association in order to integrate Japanese society around military values. The founders, mostly proteges of Yamagata Aritomo, die chief Meiji period spokesman for unity...

...Richard Smethurst Japan's First General Election . By R. H. P. Mason . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1969 . viii, 254 pp. Appendices, Notes, Sources, Bibliography, Index. $7.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 172 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Richard J. Smethurst Technology and Agricultural Development in Pre-War Japan . By Penelope Francks . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1984 . xiii, 322 pp. Tables, Charts, Maps, Glossary, Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $30. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Richard J. Smethurst A Time of Crisis: Japan, the Great Depression, and Rural Revitalization . By Kerry Smith . Harvard East Asian Monographs, no. 191. Cambridge : Harvard University Asia Center , 2001 . xvi , 481 pp. $42.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Simon James Bytheway From Foot Soldier to Finance Minister: Takahashi Korekiyo, Japan's Keynes . By Richard J. Smethurst . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2007 . xiv , 377 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009...

...Ann Waswo Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 A Social Basis for Prewar Japanese Militarism: The Army and the Rural Community . By Richard J. Smethurst . Berkeley, Los Angeles and London : University of California Press , 1974 . xxi, 202 pp. Essay on Sources...

.... Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1986. xii, 184 pp. $20.00. Agricultural Development and Tenancy Disputes in Japan, 1870 1940. By RICHARD J. SMETHURST. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. xii, 472 pp. $52.50. Social Protest and Popular Culture in Eighteenth-CenturyJapan...

.... 1052 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES tail to his discussion of the organization, membership, leadership, and financing of the organizations. Chapters III and IV, in which these subjects are examined, are the best in the book. I wish, however, that Smethurst had expended as much care on the formulation of his...

... not at the beginning but mid-course in the unfolding process of "conservative reaffirmation." The first item, Richard J. Smethurst's "The Military Reserve Association and The Minobe Crisis," reaches the conclusion that "the main impetus for attacking the professor and his theory came not from the army above, but from...

... d'etat of February 1936 came not at the beginning but mid-course in the unfolding process of "conservative reaffirmation." The first item, Richard J. Smethurst's "The Military Reserve Association and The Minobe Crisis," reaches the conclusion that "the main impetus for attacking the professor and his...

... Reinterpreted Huynh Kim Khdnh Voluntary Surrender and Confession in Chinese Law: The Problem of Continuity W. Allyn Eickett The Creation of the Imperial Military Reserve Association in Japan Richard ]. Smethurst The Fiscal Importance of the Land Tax during the Ch'ing Period Yeh-chien Wang Collected Abstracts...

... from Japan: Finance, Imperialism, and the Building of the Yen Bloc, 1895–1937 ( Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2012 ) ; Richard Smethurst , From Foot Soldier to Finance Minister: Takahashi Korekiyo, Japan's Keynes ( Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center...

... Japanese Militarism: The Army and the Rural Community. BY RICHARD J. SMETHURST. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1974. xxi, 202 pp. Essay on Sources, Bibliography, Index. I14.00. duction and productivity. The essay suggests This audacious and interesting book ex...

... Stanley of Northwestern University,” “labor historian Andrew Gordon,” and “Richard Smethurst of the University of Pittsburgh” (Huffman pp. 73, 90, 162, 189)—suggest an imagined student readership, but few professors are going to assign a 300+-page book to their classes and even fewer undergraduates...

.... 3 As its title indicates, Richard Smethurst's A Social Basis for Prewar Japanese Militarism fit in this vein as well. 4 In the decades since, a number of historians have applied this emphasis on military-society relations to earlier conflicts. It was only from the 1980s on that the more...

.... $10.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 BOOK REVIEWS 173 broader based information. The author might also have made greater use of local newspapers, and the publications of the parties involved. RICHARD SMETHURST University of Pittsburgh Fragile Victory. Prince...

... rural following before the crisis decade of the 1930s," and continued to solidify what one observer called its "electoral constituency" thereafter (Smethurst, A Social Basis for Prewar Japanese Militarism, 1974.) And, as Berger points out, the Home Ministry was the ultimate victor in the politics...

... in tenancy in the Meiji period are not so much an indication of polarization and increasing rural poverty as they are evidence that poor farmers gained the right to till larger farms by cultivating newly reclaimed fields, and former servants won the freedom to become tenants. RICHARD J. SMETHURST University...

..., Franziska, 560 Shafqat, Saeed, 671 Sharma, Shalendra D., 1201 Sheng, Lijun, 557 Shields, Anna M., 577 Shin, Gi-Wook, 298 Silbergeld, Jerome, 264 Silva, David J., 640 Slater, David, 276 Slingsby, B. T., 281 Smart, Alan, 256 Smethurst, Richard J., 628 Smith, Frank, 359 Smith, Kidder, 129 Smith-Hefner, Nancy J...

... and Sources RUCH, BARBARA. Origins of The Companion Library. An Anthology of Medieval Japanese Stories SMETHURST, RICHARD j . The Creation of the Imperial Military Reserve Association in Japan 749 373 21 593 815 India DESAI, SANTOSH N. Ramayana An Instrument of Historical Contact and Cultural Transmission...