Masako Gavin

Biographic Data

ID4222671
NAMEMasako Gavin
GIVEN NAMESMasako
FAMILY NAMEGavin
SIGNATUREGAVIN M
AFFILIATIONSBond University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS6
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1998
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1

  • Abe Isoo and His 1905 US Baseball Tour

    Open AccessMasako GavinARTICLEEast Asia2021References: 5

  • A Meiji Christian Socialist Becomes a Spokesperson for Japan

    Open AccessMasako GavinARTICLEEast Asia2016Cited by: 1References: 2

  • Shiga Shigetaka 1863-1927

    Masako GavinBOOKShiga Shigetaka 1863-19272015

    Extract: The late 1880's marked an upsurge in ideological activity in Japan. Widespread media coverage of unequal treaties signed with the Western powers without imperial permission had contributed to a sense of national humiliation and increased public awareness of Japan's predicament. The treaties ended the 270 years of selfâ imposed feudal seclusion and forced Japan into free trade at selected ports where tariff autonomy was waived. As well as…

  • Japan and the High Treason Incident

    Benjamin Middleton, Masako Gavin et al.EDITORBOOKJapan and the High Treason Incident2013

    Abe Isoo, regarded as the father of both socialism and baseball in Japan, was one of the country’s most eminent intellectuals in the first half of the last century. A Christian and non-revolutionary socialist, he was professor of economics at Tokyo Senmon Gakkō (the forerunner to Waseda University) from 1899 to 1926, the year he became chairman of the Social People’s Party (Shakai Minshūtō). During the ‘winter years’ of Japanese socialism, Abe br…

  • Abe Isoo and Kawakami Hajime in Interwar Japan — Economic Reform or Revolution

    Open AccessMasako GavinARTICLEEast Asia2010References: 4

  • Poverty and Its Possible Cures

    Open AccessMasako GavinARTICLEEast Asia2007

  • Anti-Japanese sentiment and the responses of two Meiji intellectuals

    Open AccessMasako GavinARTICLEEast Asia2004Cited by: 1

  • National moral education

    Masako GavinARTICLEJapanese Studies2004Cited by: 1References: 1

    Abe IsÅ , one of the most eminent intellectuals of the Meiji era (1868-1912) and a professor at Tokyo Senmon GakkÅ (the present Waseda University), believed in a liberal approach to education and opposed the trend towards state-oriented education and the egocentric approach that superseded it. His views are important to an understanding of educational issues during this pivotal period but have been largely ignored by those who have studied the le…

  • Abe Iso and New Zealand as a model for a ‘new’ Japan

    Masako GavinARTICLEJapan Forum2004

    With the rise of capitalism, the‘labour problem’became a serious issue for intellectuals in Japan. Although the national economy expanded rapidly at the turn of the nineteenth century, Japan's workforce was still heavily dependent on‘farmers’whose condition was only worsened by the land tax revision of 1873. The government policy offukoku kyōhei(‘enrich the country, strengthen the armed forces’) benefited capitalists in the form ofzaibatsu(busine…

  • Nihon fukeiron (Japanese Landscape)

    Masako GavinARTICLEJapan Forum2000Cited by: 3References: 3

    Nihon fukeiron (Japanese Landscape), written by Shiga Shigetaka (1863-1927), a journalist and geographer, is widely recognized as his most representative geographical text and also one of his most controversial works. The debate centres on whether his purpose in broadening his contemporaries' understanding of Japan’s natural environment was educational or imperialistic. Shiga is known among scholars of Japanese modern intellectual history as the …

  • For Japan’s survival

    Open AccessMasako GavinARTICLEEast Asia1999

  • Educating for a New Japan

    Masako GavinARTICLEJapanese Studies1998References: 2

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