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For survey courses in the History of Asia, and the History of Japan. This short survey of the rich and long history of Japan, written by one of the world's leading scholars in the field, provides an overall framework from its origins to today. It presents traditions in every field of the arts and literature, political changes, economic advancements, and developments in society, commerce, and culture.

This short survey of the rich and long history of Japan provides an overall framework from its origins to today. It ... MORE

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Preface

Japanese History: Origins to the Twelfth Century

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Japanese Origins

(1)

The Yayoi Revolution

(8)

The Spread of the New Culture

(1)

Tomb Culture and the Yamato State

(1)

The Yamato Court and Korea

(2)

Religion in Early Japan

(1)

Nara and Heian Japan

(9)

Seventh Century

(1)

Nara and Early Heian Court Government

(2)

Land and Taxes

(1)

Rise of the Samurai

(1)

Late Heian Court Government

(2)

Aristocratic Culture and Buddhism in Nara and Heian Japan

(8)

Chinese Tradition in Japan

(1)

Birth of Japanese Literature

(2)

Nara and Heian Buddhism

(2)

Early Japanese History in Historical Perspective

(4)

Medieval Japan: The Twelfth to Sixteenth Centuries

(30)

Kamakura and Ashikaga Japan

(8)

Rise of Minamoto Yoritomo

(2)

The Question of Feudalism

(2)

Kamakura Rule After Yoritomo

(1)

Women in Warrior Society

(1)

The Ashikaga Era

(2)

Agriculture, Commerce, and Medieval Guilds

(1)

Buddhism and Medieval Culture

(8)

Japanese Pietism: Pure Land and Nichiren Buddhism

(2)

Zen Buddhism

(3)

No Plays

(2)

Warring States Era (1467--1600)

(9)

War of All Against All

(2)

Foot-Soldier Revolution

(4)

Piracy, Trade, and Foreign Relations

(3)

Medieval Japan in Historical Perspective

(4)

The Era of Tokugawa Rule, 1600--1868

(30)

Political Unification

(1)

Political Engineering and Economic Growth During The Seventeenth Century

(6)

Ieyasu and the Establishment of Tokugawa Rule

(3)

Economy and Society

(2)

The Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

(7)

The Forty-Seven Ronin

(3)

Talent and Rule

(1)

Cycles of Reform

(1)

Bureaucratization

(1)

The Later Tokugawa Economy

(1)

Tokugawa Culture

(11)

Literature and Drama

(2)

Confucian Thought

(2)

Other Developments in Thought

(4)

Late Traditional Japan in Historical Perspective

(4)

Modern Japan, 1853--1945

(42)

Overthrow of the Tokugawa Bakufu (1853--1868)

(4)

Background

(1)

Political Process

(3)

Building the Meiji State (1868--1890)

(7)

Centralization of Power

100

(1)

New Ideas

101

(3)

Political Parties

104

(1)

The Meiji Constitution

104

(1)

Growth of a Modern Economy

105

(6)

First Phase: Model Industries

106

(1)

Second Phase: 1880s--1890s

107

(1)

Third Phase: 1905--1929

108

(2)

Fourth Phase: Depression and Recovery

110

(1)

The Politics of Imperial Japan (1890--1927)

111

(7)

Diet Politics, the First Decade

111

(2)

The Golden Years of Meiji

113

(3)

Rise of the Parties to Power

116

(2)

Militarism and War (1927--1945)

118

(12)

The Army and Navy

119

(1)

A Crisis in Manchuria

119

(1)

The Great Depression

120

(1)

The Radical Right and the Military

121

(2)

The Road to Pearl Harbor

123

(2)

The Pacific War

125

(2)

Japanese Militarism and German Naziism

127

(3)

Modern Japan in Historical Perspective

130

(5)

Japan, the Recent Decades

135

(32)

The Occupation and Yoshida Shigeru, 1945--1954

136

(7)

The American Occupation

136

(5)

Yoshida Shigeru and Japan's Postwar Policy

141

(2)

The Cold War and the Japanese Transformation, 1955--1989

143

(10)

Economic Growth

144

(4)

Society

148

(3)

Politics

151

(2)

The Recent Years, 1990 to the Present

153

(8)

A Recession Economy

154

(2)

A New Age of Politics

156

(3)

Society, Problems, and Prospects

159

(2)

Japan: A Future Perspective

161

(6)

Index

167

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