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The Far Eastern Quarterly - Review of Eastern Asia and the Adjacent Pacific Islands November 1949 - August 1950

1950

The many references of the early Meiji statesmen to the course of aggression of the European powers in the Asiastic countries should accordingly not be construed solely and primarily as pleas for a defense force against the military juggernauts of the West. [...] The practice however even from the outset did not conform to the principle.' In the following centuries the military profession which was held in contempt by the genteel courtiers of Kyoto gradually gravitated into the hands of the frontier clans. [...] Attainment of the desired objectives thus entailed the acquisition of absolute military and fiscal power by the throne which in turn involved nothing less than the destruction of the Tokugawa feudal system." With this in mind the champions of the emperor prceeded to recall the ideal days of hoary antiquity when supreme military and civil authority were the prerogatives of the crown." Thus the [...] These acts strengthened immeasurably the military position of the government for at least in theory the authority of the emperor was extended over the entire country and his military forces became responsible for the defense of the realm and the maintenance of law and order. [...] The peasants soon discovered that the conscription law permitted the purchase of substitutes a means of escape from military service which for all practical purposes was closed to the povertstricken.38 Conscription also meant the loss to the peasant households of the strongest hands and augured an increase in the already backbreaking burdens of the remainder of the family.
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Pages
454
Published in
United States
SARF Document ID
sarf.147553
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Cover
i-ix unknown view
The “Modern” Army of Early Meiji Japan
21-41 unknown view
Mo ti and the English Utilitarians
42-62 L. Ralph view
Notes and Comments
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Far Eastern art
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News of the Profession
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Book Reviews
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Bibliographical Notes
107-i unknown view
The Far Eastern Quarterly - Review of Eastern Asia and the Adjacent Pacific Islands November 1949 - August 1950
147-413 unknown view
Far Eastern Bibliography 1949
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