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A Note on Japanese and Chinese Names | p. viii |
Preface | p. ix |
Japan Before the Seventeenth Century | p. 1 |
Early History of the Japanese People | p. 1 |
Traditional Culture and Institutions of the Pre-Tokugawa Years | p. 6 |
Notes | p. 15 |
Establishment of the Tokugawa Bakufu | p. 17 |
The Shogun of the Tokugawa Bakufu | p. 17 |
Tokugawa Institutions | p. 20 |
The Structure of Tokugawa Society | p. 25 |
The Culture of the Tokugawa Period | p. 32 |
Notes | p. 35 |
The Late Tokugawa Period | p. 37 |
Political Developments | p. 37 |
Economic Problems | p. 40 |
The Lot of the Peasants | p. 45 |
Peasant Uprisings | p. 49 |
Agricultural Improvements | p. 52 |
Intellectual Currents: Reformers and Critics | p. 54 |
Notes | p. 60 |
The Fall of the Tokugawa Bakufu | p. 63 |
Arrival of Commodore Perry | p. 63 |
The Immediate Consequences | p. 66 |
The Mentality of Sonno Joi | p. 69 |
The Rise of the Anti-Bakufu Forces | p. 72 |
The Meiji Restoration | p. 78 |
Notes | p. 82 |
The Meiji Restoration: The New Order | p. 83 |
Political Changes | p. 86 |
Local Government | p. 89 |
Social Reforms | p. 90 |
Pensions for the Kazoku and Shizoku | p. 92 |
Revision of the Land Tax and the Plight of the Farmers | p. 93 |
Legal Reforms | p. 94 |
The Police System | p. 95 |
The Army and the Navy | p. 95 |
Economic Developments | p. 96 |
Education | p. 100 |
Civilization and Enlightenment | p. 104 |
Religion | p. 106 |
Notes | p. 108 |
The Continuing Meiji Revolution (I): Political Developments | p. 111 |
Political Reactions | p. 113 |
Agrarian Unrest | p. 117 |
The Movement for Popular Rights | p. 120 |
Fortification of the Central Government | p. 129 |
The Constitution | p. 131 |
Notes | p. 133 |
The Continuing Meiji Revolution (II): Cultural, Economic, and Social Developments | p. 135 |
Cultural Nationalism | p. 135 |
Initial Modern Economic Growth | p. 143 |
The Plight of the Workers | p. 147 |
Social Conditions | p. 151 |
Notes | p. 153 |
Political Developments in Later Meiji | p. 157 |
Partisan Politics: 1887-1894 | p. 159 |
The Korean Question and the Sino-Japanese War | p. 163 |
Postwar Domestic Political Developments | p. 168 |
Notes | p. 176 |
The Conclusion of the Meiji Era | p. 179 |
The Russo-Japanese War | p. 179 |
Foreign Affairs After the War | p. 187 |
Internal Affairs After the War | p. 188 |
The Death of Emperor Meiji | p. 191 |
Meiji Japan: An Assessment | p. 194 |
Notes | p. 199 |
The Era of Parliamentary Ascendancy (I) | p. 201 |
Internal Political Affairs: 1912-1918 | p. 202 |
Foreign Affairs | p. 207 |
Economic Developments: 1906-1930 | p. 215 |
Social Reform Movements: Labor | p. 218 |
Agrarian Reform Movements | p. 220 |
The Outcastes and the Suiheisha | p. 221 |
Movement for Women's Rights | p. 222 |
Democratic and Socialistic Political Movements | p. 224 |
Notes | p. 228 |
The Era of Parliamentary Ascendancy (II) | p. 231 |
Culture of the Taisho Era | p. 231 |
Political Developments: 1918-1932 | p. 239 |
Notes | p. 255 |
The Ascendancy of Militarism | p. 257 |
Radical Nationalists and Militarists | p. 257 |
Conspiracies and Assassinations | p. 263 |
The Manchurian Incident | p. 266 |
Internal Political Developments: The Triumph of the Militarists | p. 271 |
Economic Developments | p. 283 |
Notes | p. 286 |
The Road to War | p. 289 |
China Policy to 1937 | p. 289 |
The China Incident | p. 294 |
Internal Developments | p. 301 |
Further Foreign Entanglements | p. 305 |
Negotiations with the United States | p. 312 |
The Occupation of Southern French Indochina | p. 314 |
The Decision for War | p. 316 |
Notes | p. 327 |
War and Defeat | p. 329 |
The Offensive War | p. 329 |
The War at Home | p. 333 |
The Defensive War | p. 338 |
The Allied Strategy: "Island Hopping" | p. 339 |
The Transference of Leadership from Tojo to Koiso | p. 344 |
The Beginning of the End | p. 346 |
The Battle for Leyte Gulf | p. 347 |
The End of the Fighting: The Kamikaze | p. 349 |
The Economics of Warfare | p. 351 |
The Finale | p. 352 |
Notes | p. 359 |
The Postwar Years (I): Reform and Reconstruction | p. 363 |
The MacArthur Era | p. 363 |
Political Developments During the Occupation Years | p. 376 |
Notes | p. 381 |
The Postwar Years (II): Political Developments After Independence | p. 383 |
The Yoshida Years | p. 383 |
After Yoshida: The 1955 System | p. 385 |
End of LDP Dominance | p. 391 |
Foreign Relations | p. 401 |
Economic Developments | p. 415 |
The Japanese Economy in the Early 1990s: Recession | p. 430 |
Notes | p. 430 |
Social and Educational Developments | p. 437 |
Social Developments | p. 437 |
Education | p. 458 |
Notes | p. 466 |
Cultural Developments | p. 471 |
American Influence | p. 471 |
Survival of the Traditional Outlook | p. 474 |
Religion | p. 476 |
Literature | p. 478 |
Cinema | p. 485 |
Art and Architecture | p. 488 |
Popular Culture | p. 490 |
Baseball and Other Sports | p. 492 |
Revival of Nationalism? | p. 494 |
Yasukuni Controversy | p. 496 |
End of the Showa Reign | p. 500 |
Three Strikes | p. 504 |
Notes | p. 520 |
The Internet | p. 527 |
Chronological Chart | p. 532 |
List of Prime Ministers | p. 538 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 540 |
Index | p. 583 |
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