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Article: Sims, Richard Japanese Political History since the Meiji Renovation, 1868-2000.(Brief Article)
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- History: Review of New Books
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- January 1, 2002
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New York: Palgrave 395 pp., $59.95, ISBN 0-312-23914-9 Publication Date: May 2001
The flyleaf of Japanese Political History claims that Richard Sims "fills the gap between general histories of modern Japan and the monographic literature." As most conventional general histories tend to focus on politics and policy matters anyway, a great deal of the material, chronologically presented, is the same as the content of a general history. However, it is in the points of separation--the sections where Sims traces the evolution of political structures or analyzes political weaknesses and failures--that he manages to offer up quite a useful volume that justifies the term ...