World War I and the Triumph of a New Japan, 1919–1930 / [electronic resource] Frederick R. Dickinson. World War I & the Triumph of a New Japan, 1919–1930 Dickinson, Frederick R., author. DS886 .D53 2013 952.03/2 23 Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). Frederick R. Dickinson illuminates a new, integrative history of interwar Japan that highlights the transformative effects of the Great War far from the Western Front. World War I and the Triumph of a New Japan, 1919–1930 reveals how Japan embarked upon a decade of national reconstruction following the Paris Peace Conference, rivalling the monumental rebuilding efforts in post-Versailles Europe. Taking World War I as his anchor, Dickinson examines the structural foundations of a new Japan, discussing the country's wholehearted participation in new post-war projects of democracy, internationalism, disarmament and peace. Dickinson proposes that Japan's renewed drive for military expansion in the 1930s marked less a failure of Japan's interwar culture than the start of a tumultuous domestic debate over the most desirable shape of Japan's twentieth-century world. This stimulating study will engage students and researchers alike, offering a unique, global perspective of interwar Japan. 2013 Text 1 online resource (234 pages) : http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139794794 eng Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare ; no. 39 Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare ; no. 39.