Abstract
Between 1907 and 1908, Katsura worked to move Japan’s informal imperialism away from dependency on military force and improve its economic return. His motive was the strain that a military-centred imperialism was exerting on Japan’s economy, already weakened by war debt, and on its constitutional polity. For Japan to maintain a secure position in northeast Asia, he believed it essential to develop its overseas interests on a variety of levels, improve its colonial and semi-colonial administration, and increase Japanese investment in empire, especially the human capital of agrarian migrants.
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Goto comments, GNN, 5 February 1907. 1906 membership figures, Kimijima Kazuhiko, ‘Töyö Takushoku Kabushiki Kaisha no Setsuritsu Katei’, part 1, Rekishi Hyöron, 282, November 1973, p. 36.
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Lone, S. (2000). The Oriental Society: Imperial Education and Enterprise, 1907–8. In: Army, Empire and Politics in Meiji Japan. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403919632_10
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