Pan-Asianism in Modern Japanese History

Sven Saaler is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo. He was formerly head of the Humanities Section of the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) in Tokyo.

This in-depth volume analyzes various historical approaches to the construction of the regional order in East Asia, each of which can be seen as an expression of Pan-Asianist thought.

1. Pan-Asianism in Modern Japanese History: Overcoming the Nation, Creating a Region, Forging an Empire Part 1: Creating a Regional Identity: Ideal and Reality 2. Pan-Asianism in Modern Japan: Nationalism, Regionalism and Universalism 3. The Asianism of the Kôa-kai and the Ajia Kyôkai: Reconsidering the Ambiguity of Asianism 4. Universal Values and Pan-Asianism: the Vision of Ômotokyô 5. Pan-Asianism and National Reorganization: Japanese Perceptions of China and the United States, 1914-1919 Part 2: Regionalism, Nationalism and Ethnocentrism 6. Between Pan-Asianism and Nationalism: Mitsukawa Kametarô and his Campaign to Reform Japan and Liberate Asia 7. Forgotten Leaders of the Interwar Debate on Regional Integration: Introducing Sugimori Kôjirô 8. Were Women Pan-Asianists the Worst?: Internationalism and Pan-Asianism in the Careers of Inoue Hideko and Inoue Masaji Part 3: Creating a Regional Hegemony: Japans's Quest for a "New Order" 9. Visions of a Virtuous Manifest Destiny: Yasuoka Masahiro and Japan's Kingly Way 10. The Temporality of Empire: The Imperial Cosmopolitanism of Miki Kiyoshi and Tanabe Hajime 11. The Concept of Ethnic Nationality and its Role in Pan-Asianism in Imperial Japan Part 4: Pan-Asianism Adjusted: Wartime to Postwar 12. Constructing Destiny: Rôyama Masamichi and Asian Regionalism in Wartime Japan 13. The Postwar Intellectuals' View of "Asia" 14. Overcoming Colonialism in Bandung, 1955 15. Pan-Asianism in International Relations: Prewar, Postwar, and Present