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Rethinking Modernization and Modernity in Japanese History: A Focus on State-Society Relations

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Sheldon Garon
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There was a time, not so long ago, when the primary fault line in American studies of Japan lay not between “Japan-bashers” and “Japanapologists,” but between those who presented the history of Japan in terms of an ongoing process of modernization and those who did not. During the 1970s, younger scholars of Japan attacked modernization theory with considerable passion (see Dower 1975), eliciting rather defensive responses from its practitioners. The 1980s saw the emergence of yet another, though somewhat smaller, generation of American scholars, which has been not so much anti-modernizationist as non-modernizationist. Like the critics of the 1970s, historians of this newest generation have dealt with conflict, social problems, and state repression, but most no longer believe it necessary to discuss the problems raised by modernization theory.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 53 , Issue 2 , May 1994 , pp. 346 - 366
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994

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