Modern Japanese History: Activist (shishi) Movement in the Meiji Restoration, 1860-68

FAIN: FA-10782-74

Bernard S. Silberman
University of Chicago (Chicago, IL 60637-5418)

The proposed study is a description and an analysis of the development of a group of activists known as the shishi ("men of spirit," loyalists) whose activities in the years between, approximately, 1860-68 were a major element inbringing about the Meiji Resotration of 1868, the focal point of Japan's transformation into a modern state.