The Making of Modern Japan

by Pyle, Kenneth

• ISBN13: 9780669200201
• ISBN10: 0669200204
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-01-02
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

Analyzing the dynamics of historical change, the text discusses the major forces in Japan's development from 1600 to the present day, including samurai officialdom, industrialization, militarism, and social values.

Table of Contents

Reunification of Japan	1	(10)
The Warring States Period, 1467--1568	2	(1)
Consolidation of Local Power	3	(1)
Castle Towns	3	(4)
Toward Unification	7	(4)
Establishment of the Tokugawa System	11	(18)
The Tokugawa Bakufu	11	(3)
Tokugawa Control System	14	(6)
Government at the Domain Level	20	(1)
Village Government	21	(1)
Family and the Role of Women	22	(3)
The Character of the Tokugawa System	25	(4)
Growth of Tokugawa Society	29	(12)
Roots of Change	29	(2)
Transformation of the Samurai Class	31	(1)
Change in Agrarian Society	32	(4)
Growth of the Merchant Class	36	(5)
Crisis in the Tokugawa System	41	(16)
Economic Problems	41	(2)
Social Problems	43	(3)
Ideological Problems	46	(3)
Alternative Visions	49	(3)
Movements for Reform in Government	52	(5)
The Meiji Restoration	57	(20)
Tokugawa Foreign Relations	57	(2)
The Coming of the Foreign Crisis	59	(4)
The Treaties	63	(3)
Declining Fortunes of the Bakufu	66	(1)
Samurai Activists	67	(2)
Choshu-Satsuma Alliance	69	(2)
The Significance of the Meiji Restoration	71	(6)
Revolution in Japan's Worldview	77	(20)
Fukuzawa and the New Westernism	80	(3)
Women, Family, and the Limits of Reform	83	(1)
Agents of Cultural Revolution	84	(8)
The Challenge of the Japanese Enlightenment	92	(5)
Beginnings of Industrialization	97	(18)
The Catch-Up Vision	98	(3)
The Beginnings of an Industrial Policy	101	(2)
The State of the Economy in 1868	103	(1)
The Role of Government	104	(4)
The Role of Private Capital	108	(7)
Building the Nation-State	115	(18)
Initial Problems	115	(3)
The Movement for Constitutional Reform	118	(4)
The Meiji Constitution	122	(1)
Establishment of a Modern Bureaucracy	123	(2)
The New Nationalism	125	(8)
Imperialism and the New Industrial Society	133	(26)
Japanese Imperialism	134	(12)
The Problems of Industrial Society Come to Japan	146	(2)
Origins of Japanese Labor-Management Relations	148	(4)
The Role of Women in Industrialization	152	(2)
Agrarian Society	154	(5)
Crisis of Political Community	159	(22)
Evolution of the Political System	160	(3)
The Elitist Nature of the Taisho Political System	163	(3)
Turmoil in Society	166	(6)
Women's Groups and the State	172	(3)
Vulnerability of the Political Parties	175	(6)
The Road to the Pacific War	181	(26)
The Ending of the Imperialist System	182	(2)
The Washington Treaty System	184	(3)
The Joining of Domestic and Foreign Crisis	187	(3)
Going It Alone	190	(2)
The Question of Japanese ``Fascism''	192	(6)
The Coming of the Pacific War	198	(9)
Japan's American Revolution	207	(20)
Surrender	208	(3)
The Controversy over the Atomic Bombing	211	(2)
The American Occupation	213	(1)
Demilitarization	214	(2)
A New Political Order	216	(4)
Economic Reforms	220	(2)
Social Reforms	222	(1)
The ``Reverse Course''	223	(4)
Postwar Politics and Purpose	227	(14)
Formation of the Postwar Political System	228	(4)
The Yoshida Doctrine	232	(4)
Elaboration of the Yoshida Doctrine	236	(5)
Economic Nationalism	241	(14)
High Economic Growth, 1950-1973	243	(4)
Industrial Policy Debate	247	(3)
Postwar Japanese Capitalism	250	(5)
The New Middle-Class Society	255	(14)
Growth of a Meritocracy	257	(3)
The Position of Women	260	(2)
Evolution of the Political System	262	(3)
Japanese Democracy	265	(4)
End of an Era	269	(16)
The End of Late Development	269	(5)
The End of the Yoshida Doctrine	274	(3)
Internationalization	277	(3)
The Struggle to Reorient Japanese Purpose	280	(5)
Glossary	285	(4)
Suggestions for Further Reading	289	(12)
Index	301