The Roots of Modern Japan by Jean-Pierre Lehmann (PDF)

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⭐In The Roots of Modern Japan, you will realize just how much the country, that has very commonly been seen as an isolated one, has played a poignant role in the pre-modern and modern world. Jean-Pierre Lehmann explored the many facets of all of the internal and extern forces that set Japan on her rails of destiny. From the rangakuI scholars of the late 1700’s- early 1800’s, the Eta people, the heavy influence that German political system had on Japan’s 1889 Constitution and Meiji governments to General MacArthur’s and Commander Perry’s link in history. Though the book goes into a fair amount of detail surrounding the causes and effects of one event apon another, I was blown away by this passage., “… whereas Perry defected Japanese isolationism in 1854, MacArthur in 1945 brought to an end Japanese expansionism” (p. 137). Obviously, a lot happened between that 89 year period. To have lived to see everything that happened during those short 89 years would probably be like witnessing the birth of a nation, the life of an imperial monarchy, and the death of an empire (in one life time!); like the history of Rome in less than a century. Nevertheless, the bulk of the roots lie in those 89 years. Written in the early 1980’s, Lehmann does wise and leaves the high praise that Western authors and scholars were giving to Japan during those good economic years. He also looks at the annals of history with a fair eye. He tells about the racism that the Japanese governmental leaders experienced when dealing with the Europeans and Americans during the late 1800’s-early 1900’s and, of course, beyond (yes even up until the 1980’s). And he also tells about the racism and superiority complex that the Japanese exercised over other Asians and their own people, the Eta. Lehmann also tells about how Japan, with her defeat over the Russians before the First World War, started the fall of European dominance across the whole world. The question one has to ask her or himself after finishing this book is whether Japan should be applauded for her shear will to live, fight, and contribute to the world community, or chided for her ruthless acts of copying the negatives behind Western imperialization?

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