TY - BOOK AU - Siniawer,Eiko Maruko ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Ruffians, yakuza, nationalists: the violent politics of modern Japan, 1860-1960 AV - HN730.Z9 V55 2008 U1 - 306.20952/09034 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Ithaca PB - Cornell University Press KW - Political violence KW - Japan KW - History KW - Democracy KW - Politics and government KW - 1868- KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Patriots and gamblers: violence and the formation of the Meiji state -- Violent democracy: ruffians and the birth of parliamentary politics -- Institutionalized ruffianism and a culture of political violence -- Fascist violence: ideology and power in prewar Japan -- Democracy reconstructed: violence specialists in the postwar period -- Afterword; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nird-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3138122 ER -