| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.1

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Stewart Lone. Army, Empire and Politics in Meiji Japan: The Three Careers of General Katsura Tar. New York: St. Martin's. 2000. Pp. vii, 247. $65.00.

Katsura Tar (1847–1913), one of the principal architects of the modern Japanese army, three times prime minister, and founder of one of two major parties that flourished in the brief era of parliamentary rule in the 1920s, ranks among the most significant yet poorly understood figures in Japan's political history. Japanese-language scholarship since the 1970s has shed considerable light on Katsura. In English-language studies, however, he has received little attention in his own right and is known primarily as a follower and heir-apparent of soldier-statesman Yamagata Aritomo (1838–1922) and as the most prominent casualty of the Taish Crisis of 1912–1913. Stewart Lone's book redresses past neglect. He argues that an understanding of this political jack-of-all-trades necessitates a broad reexamination of prevailing perceptions of military-civil relations, of war and imperialism, and of domestic politics in Meiji Japan. . . .

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