The City as Subject: Seki Hajime and the Reinvention of Modern Osaka Volume 13
(Book #13 in the Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power Series)
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In exploring the career of Seki Hajime (1873-1935), who served as mayor of Japan's second-largest city, Osaka, Jeffrey E. Hanes traces the roots of social progressivism in prewar Japan. Seki, trained as a political economist in the late 1890s, when Japan was focused single-mindedly on "increasing industrial production," distinguished himself early on as a people-centered, rather than a state-centered, national economist. After three years of advanced...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0520228499
ISBN13:9780520228498
Release Date:May 2002
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:360 Pages
Weight:1.63 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"
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