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2. Idealism, Imperialism, and Internationalism: Opium Politics in the Colonial Philippines, 1898–1925.
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WERTZ, DANIEL J. P.
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OPIUM trade , *OPIUM abuse , *IMPERIALISM , *DRUG abuse policy , *DRUG control , *HISTORY , *TWENTIETH century , *INTERNATIONAL cooperation , *GOVERNMENT policy ,PHILIPPINES-United States relations ,PHILIPPINE politics & government, 1898-1935 ,PHILIPPINE history, 1898-1945 ,FOREIGN relations of the United States - Abstract
While establishing a framework for colonial governance in the Philippines, American policymakers had to confront the issue of opium smoking, which was especially popular among the Philippine Chinese community. In 1903, the Philippine Commission proposed a return to the Spanish-era policy of controlling the opium trade through tax farming, igniting outrage among American Protestant missionaries in the Philippines and their supporters in the United States. Their actions revived a faltering global anti-opium movement, leading to a series of international agreements and domestic restrictions on opium and other drugs. Focusing mostly on American policy in the Philippines, this paper also examines the international ramifications of a changing drug control regime. It seeks to incorporate the debate over opium policy into broader narratives of imperial ideology, international cooperation, and local responses to colonial rule, demonstrating how a variety of actors shaped the new drug-control regimes both in the Philippines and internationally. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2013
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3. Japan's Democratization: Miyatake Gaikotsu on Prewar Plans and Postwar Programmes.
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LEWIS, MICHAEL
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DEMOCRATIZATION , *HISTORY ,JAPANESE history -- 1868- ,JAPANESE politics & government, 1868- ,JAPAN-United States relations - Abstract
Japan's early postwar leadership and American occupiers alike asserted that democratization was a new lesson that the Japanese public would have to learn. In fact, the ideas of democratic reformers had been broadcast to a large audience as feasible programmes decades before 1945. Miyatake Gaikotsu, the editor of Democracy in 1919, outlined the benefits that democratic reforms might provide in a post-World War I world. Decades later, Japanese people faced a new postwar struggle, not as victors but as the vanquished. Gaikotsu, writing in 1945, reflected on democracy in these new circumstances in his study, Amerika-sama. Although the situation was vastly different, victory and defeat in world wars had opened paths to new possibilities. This paper examines Gaikotsu's prewar writings as prescient prescriptions that he revisits in his essay Amerika-sama, or ‘Honourable America,’ at the point they begin to be played out, in some instances only partially and at times for ill as well as good, in occupied Japan. These reflections strikingly demonstrate the continuity of ideas during the prewar past and postwar present. Amerika-sama is a representative expression of many programmes Gaikotsu and likeminded humanistic activists attempted to put into practice from the late nineteenth century until they were suppressed during the wartime years. Mainstream political parties, prewar and postwar, often found it difficult to embrace Gaikotsu's ideas and political programmes. Nevertheless, the general public embraced them and they now find legal support in the Constitution of Japan. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2011
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