Japan’s March Toward Militarism by Bill Gordon Japan’s march toward militarism started
Japan’s March Toward Militarism by Bill Gordon Japan’s march toward militarism started soon after the overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate and the beginning of the Meiji Restoration in 1868, with the Meiji oligarchs’ adoption of a policy of fukoku kyôhei (rich country, strong military). Although the Meiji oligarchs showed restraint in outward expressions of militarism […]