Modern Japan

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ISBN: 9780395746042 | 0395746043
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 9/29/1997

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This introductory text presents an extremely clear and well-written account of the political, social, and economic events from the late Tokugawa society of 1800 to the present.

The Fall of the Tokugawa Order, 1800–1868
Late Tokugawa Society Cultural Unity and Diversity Class and Status
Community and Solidarity
Household and Gender Humans and Gods
The Political Heritage Emperor, Shogun, and Daimyo
The Web of Government
The Samurai Elite Village Politics
The Bakufu and the Outside World
Economic and Social Change Population Increase, Urbanization, and Demand
Agricultural Growth Proto-Industrialization Merchants and Markets
The Social Impact of Economic Growth
Economic Thought, Social Criticism, and Reform
The Fall of the Old Order
The Treaty Settlements "Revere the Emperor and Expel the Barbarians"
The Meiji Restoration
The Pursuit of Wealth and Power, 1868–1905
Revolution from Above
The Centralization of Power Tax Reform, Conscription, and Education
The End of the Samurai Class
The New Political Economy
"Civilization and Enlightenment
Protest and Dissent Peasant
Riots and Samurai Rebellions
"Liberty and Popular Rights"
Toward Constitutional Government Conservative Countercurrents
The Turn Toward Stability
Retrenchment and Deflation
The Bureaucratic State
The Meiji Constitution Education and Ideology
Reconstructing the Family
The Rise of Imperialism
Post-Restoration Diplomacy
The Expansionist Impulse Korea and the Sino-Japanese War
The Russo-Japanese War Imperialism and Popular Nationalism
The Beginnings of Industrialization
The Changing Countryside
The Industrial Revolution Entrepreneurship and Capital Business and Politics
The New Industrial Working Class Industrialization and the World Market
Political Change, Crisis and War, 1905–1945
The Rise of Party Government
The Struggle Against Clique Government
The Expansion of Party Power
The Establishment of Party Rule
"Normal Constitutional Government" Democracy, Radicalism, and Dissent
Economic Growth and Social Change Boom, Bust, and Stagnation
The Dual Structure Urban Labor Unrest
The Ailing Countryside Urbanization and Middle-Class Life
The Empire Between the Wars
The Continental Commitment
The China Problem
The Washington Conference System
Army Discontent and The Manchurian Incident
Militarism and War
The Shift to the Right Political Terror and Army Radicalism
The China Quagmire Economic Recovery
The "New Order" Movement
The Pacific War
The Road to Pearl Harbor War in the Pacific
The Home Front
The Surrender of Japan
Peace, Prosperity, and Stability, 1945–Present
Occupation, Reform and Recovery Postwar
Japanese Society
The American Occupation
Demilitarization and Political Democratization
Democratizing Japanese Society
Education and Ideological Change The Shift to the Left
Reconstructing the Economy
The Politics of Confrontation
The Peace Settlement
The "Reverse Course" Conservative Consolidation
The Security Treaty Crisis Toward Economism
The Economic Miracle
The Bases of Rapid Growth
Corporate Capitalism "Middle Class Society" Urbanization
The Changing Countryside
The Price of Affluence Building a Conservative Hegemony
The Divided Opposition
The Strains of Growth
The End of Rapid Growth
Restructuring the Economy
The Conservative Resurgence Cultural Nationalism
The "New Conservatism"
"International Contribution"
Trade Friction
The Bubble Economy Women, Work and Family
Japan in the 1990s
The Post-Bubble Economy
The End of LDP Hegemony
The Troubled Bureaucracy
The End of the Cold War
The New Asianism
The Post-Postwar Generation
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Modern Japan

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