Prerequisites for Lasting Peace and Other Essays

What must change before peace can endure? Ōkuma Shigenobu considers national prejudice, tariff rivalry, and the hopes surrounding the League of Nations.

The statesman and founder of Waseda University also recalls Ono Azusa, examines encounters between Eastern and Western civilizations, and discusses women’s education and political rights.

Four complete works retain the tensions and historical judgments of the original arguments, with concise explanatory notes.