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| A Note on Japanese and Chinese Names | |
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| Preface | |
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| Japan Before the Seventeenth Century | |
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| Early History of the Japanese People | |
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| Traditional Culture and Institutions of the Pre-Tokugawa Years | |
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| Notes | |
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| Establishment of the Tokugawa Bakufu | |
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| The Shogun of the Tokugawa Bakufu | |
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| Tokugawa Institutions | |
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| The Structure of Tokugawa Society | |
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| The Culture of the Tokugawa Period | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Late Tokugawa Period | |
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| Political Developments | |
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| Economic Problems | |
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| The Lot of the Peasants | |
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| Peasant Uprisings | |
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| Agricultural Improvements | |
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| Intellectual Currents: Reformers and Critics | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Fall of the Tokugawa Bakufu | |
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| Arrival of Commodore Perry | |
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| The Immediate Consequences | |
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| The Mentality of Sonno Joi | |
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| The Rise of the Anti-Bakufu Forces | |
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| The Meiji Restoration | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Meiji Restoration: The New Order | |
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| Political Changes | |
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| Local Government | |
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| Social Reforms | |
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| Pensions for the Kazoku and Shizoku | |
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| Revision of the Land Tax and the Plight of the Farmers | |
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| Legal Reforms | |
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| The Police System | |
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| The Army and the Navy | |
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| Economic Developments | |
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| Education | |
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| Civilization and Enlightenment | |
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| Religion | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Continuing Meiji Revolution (I): Political Developments | |
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| Political Reactions | |
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| Agrarian Unrest | |
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| The Movement for Popular Rights | |
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| Fortification of the Central Government | |
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| The Constitution | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Continuing Meiji Revolution (II): Cultural, Economic, and Social Developments | |
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| Cultural Nationalism | |
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| Initial Modern Economic Growth | |
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| The Plight of the Workers | |
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| Social Conditions | |
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| Notes | |
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| Political Developments in Later Meiji | |
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| Partisan Politics: 1887-1894 | |
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| The Korean Question and the Sino-Japanese War | |
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| Postwar Domestic Political Developments | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Conclusion of the Meiji Era | |
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| The Russo-Japanese War | |
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| Foreign Affairs After the War | |
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| Internal Affairs After the War | |
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| The Death of Emperor Meiji | |
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| Meiji Japan: An Assessment | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Era of Parliamentary Ascendancy (I) | |
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| Internal Political Affairs: 1912-1918 | |
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| Foreign Affairs | |
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| Economic Developments: 1906-1930 | |
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| Social Reform Movements: Labor | |
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| Agrarian Reform Movements | |
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| The Outcastes and the Suiheisha | |
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| Movement for Women's Rights | |
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| Democratic and Socialistic Political Movements | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Era of Parliamentary Ascendancy (II) | |
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| Culture of the Taisho Era | |
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| Political Developments: 1918-1932 | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Ascendancy of Militarism | |
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| Radical Nationalists and Militarists | |
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| Conspiracies and Assassinations | |
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| The Manchurian Incident | |
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| Internal Political Developments: The Triumph of the Militarists | |
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| Economic Developments | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Road to War | |
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| China Policy to 1937 | |
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| The China Incident | |
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| Internal Developments | |
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| Further Foreign Entanglements | |
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| Negotiations with the United States | |
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| The Occupation of Southern French Indochina | |
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| The Decision for War | |
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| Notes | |
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| War and Defeat | |
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| The Offensive War | |
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| The War at Home | |
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| The Defensive War | |
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| The Allied Strategy: "Island Hopping" | |
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| The Transference of Leadership from Tojo to Koiso | |
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| The Beginning of the End | |
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| The Battle for Leyte Gulf | |
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| The End of the Fighting: The Kamikaze | |
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| The Economics of Warfare | |
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| The Finale | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Postwar Years (I): Reform and Reconstruction | |
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| The MacArthur Era | |
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| Political Developments During the Occupation Years | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Postwar Years (II): Political Developments After Independence | |
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| The Yoshida Years | |
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| After Yoshida: The 1955 System | |
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| End of LDP Dominance | |
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| Foreign Relations | |
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| Economic Developments | |
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| The Japanese Economy in the Early 1990s: Recession | |
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| Notes | |
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| Social and Educational Developments | |
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| Social Developments | |
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| Education | |
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| Notes | |
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| Cultural Developments | |
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| American Influence | |
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| Survival of the Traditional Outlook | |
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| Religion | |
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| Literature | |
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| Cinema | |
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| Art and Architecture | |
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| Popular Culture | |
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| Baseball and Other Sports | |
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| Revival of Nationalism? | |
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| Yasukuni Controversy | |
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| End of the Showa Reign | |
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| Three Strikes | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Internet | |
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| Chronological Chart | |
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| List of Prime Ministers | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |