Growth of Liberalism in Japan: Two Addresses Delivered by Tsunejiro Miyaoka - Couverture souple

Miyaoka, Tsunejiro

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1241056307 ISBN 13 : 9781241056308

Editeur : Primary Sources, Historical Collections, 2011

Synopsis

This book, from the series Primary Sources: Historical Books of the World (Asia and Far East Collection), represents an important historical artifact on Asian history and culture. Its contents come from the legions of academic literature and research on the subject produced over the last several hundred years. Covered within is a discussion drawn from many areas of study and research on the subject. From analyses of the varied geography that encompasses the Asian continent to significant time periods spanning centuries, the book was made in an effort to preserve the work of previous generations.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

It is a significant mark of the growth of international influence and international opinion that both the American Bar Association and the Canadian Bar Association should have invited a representative of the Bar of Japan to deliver formal addresses at their annual meetings of 1918. It is almost equally significant that Mr. Miyaoka, to whom these most complimentary invitations were addressed and who was fortunately able to accept them, took as his general topic the Growth of Liberalism in Japan. In tracing the history of the safeguard of civil liberty in Japan and the growth of representative government in that nation, Mr. Miyaoka made a timely and most helpful contribution to our understanding of the spirit and underlying tendencies in contemporary Japanese life and thought. A ny people which is engaged in sedulously safeguarding civil liberty and in systematically developing representative government is genuinely a liberal people. Liberalism has, or rather should have, a pretty definite connotation when used of English and American political thought and action. It acquired that connotation through more than three hundred years of struggle, strife and constructive progress. It is a splendid and a noble term, and for that very reason there are those who would now tear it from its historic foundations and apply it to all forms of crude and destructive radicalism and repression of individual liberty and opportunity. Such a clear misuse of the term Liberal is to be stoutly resisted wherever it makes its appearance. That which Mr. Miyaoka traces with such fulness of knowledge is genuine Liberalism, and not a false and specious form of political development which masquerades under that name. Mr. Miyaoka svisit to the United States and to Canada has been the occasion for renewed demonstrations of the high appreciation in which the peoples of those countries hold th
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Primary Sources, Historical Collections
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1241056307
• ISBN 13: 9781241056308
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 54
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible