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The Making of Modern Japan

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$37.00 • £32.95 • €33.95

ISBN 9780674009912

Publication Date: 10/15/2002

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936 pages

6-3/8 x 9-1/4 inches

53 halftones, 9 maps, 14 tables

Belknap Press

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  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Names and Romanization
  • 1. Sekigahara
    • 1. The Sengoku Background
    • 2. The New Sengoku Daimyo
    • 3. The Unifiers: Oda Nobunaga
    • 4. Toyotomi Hideyoshi
    • 5. Azuchi-Momoyama Culture
    • 6. The Spoils of Sekigahara: Tokugawa Ieyasu
  • 2. The Tokugawa State
    • 1. Taking Control
    • 2. Ranking the Daimyo
    • 3. The Structure of the Tokugawa Bakufu
    • 4. The Domains (han)
    • 5. Center and Periphery: Bakufu-Han Relations
    • 6. The Tokugawa “State”
  • 3. Foreign Relations
    • 1. The Setting
    • 2. Relations with Korea
    • 3. The Countries of the West
    • 4. To the Seclusion Decrees
    • 5. The Dutch at Nagasaki
    • 6. Relations with China
    • 7. The Question of the “Closed Country”
  • 4. Status Groups
    • 1. The Imperial Court
    • 2. The Ruling Samurai Class
    • 3. Village Life
    • 4. Townsmen (chonin)
    • 5. Subcaste Japanese
    • 6. Status and Function
  • 5. Urbanization and Communications
    • 1. The sankin-kotai System
    • 2. Communication Networks
    • 3. Domain Castle Towns
    • 4. Edo: The Central Magnet
  • 6. The Development of a Mass Culture
    • 1. Civilizing the Ruling Class
    • 2. Books and Literacy
    • 3. Osaka and Kyoto
    • 4. Genroku Culture
  • 7. Education, Thought, and Religion
    • 1. Education
    • 2. The Diffusion of Confucianism
    • 3. Scholars and Scholarship
    • 4. The Problem of China
    • 5. Ethnic Nativism
    • 6. Dutch, or Western, Learning (rangaku)
    • 7. Religion
    • 8. Popular Preaching
  • 8. Change, Protest, and Reform
    • 1. Population
    • 2. Rulers and Ruled
    • 3. Popular Protest
    • 4. Bakufu Responses
  • 9. The Opening to the World
    • 1. Russia
    • 2. Western Europe
    • 3. News from China
    • 4. The Perry Mission
    • 5. The War Within
    • 6. Defense Intellectuals
  • 10. The Tokugawa Fall
    • 1. The Narrative
    • 2. The Open Ports
    • 3. Experiencing the West
    • 4. The Other Japanese
    • 5. The Restoration Remembered
    • 6. Why Did the Tokugawa Fall?
  • 11. The Meiji Revolution
    • 1. Background
    • 2. Steps toward Consensus
    • 3. Toward Centralization
    • 4. Failed Cultural Revolution
    • 5. Wisdom throughout the World
    • 6. The Breakup of the Restoration Coalition
    • 7. Winners and Losers
  • 12. Building the Meiji State
    • 1. Matsukata Economics
    • 2. The Struggle for Political Participation
    • 3. Ito Hirobumi and the Meiji Constitution
    • 4. Yamagata Aritomo and the Imperial Army
    • 5. Mori Arinori and Meiji Education
    • 6. Summary: The Meiji Leaders
  • 13. Imperial Japan
    • 1. The Election
    • 2. Politics under the Meiji Constitution
    • 3. Foreign Policy and Treaty Reform
    • 4. War with China
    • 5. The Diplomacy of Imperialism
    • 6. The Annexation of Korea
    • 7. State and Society
  • 14. Meiji Culture
    • 1. Restore Antiquity!
    • 2. Civilization and Enlightenment! Be a Success!
    • 3. Christianity
    • 4. Politics and Culture
    • 5. The State and Culture
  • 15. Japan Between the Wars
    • 1. Steps toward Party Government
    • 2. Japan in World Affairs
    • 3. Economic Change
  • 16. Taisho Culture and Society
    • 1. Education and Change
    • 2. The Law Faculty of Tokyo Imperial University
    • 3. Taisho Youth: From “Civilization” to “Culture”
    • 4. Women
    • 5. Labor
    • 6. Changes in the Village
    • 7. Urban Culture
    • 8. The Interwar Years
  • 17. The China War
    • 1. Manchurian Beginnings: The Incident
    • 2. Manchukuo: Eastward the Course of Empire
    • 3. Soldiers and Politics
    • 4. The Sacralization of Kokutai and the Return to Japan
    • 5. The Economy: Recovery and Resources
    • 6. Tenko: The Conversion of the Left
    • 7. Planning for a Managed Economy
    • 8. War with China and Konoe’s “New Order in Asia”
  • 18. The Pacific War
    • 1. Reading World Politics from Tokyo
    • 2. Attempts to Reconfigure the Meiji Landscape
    • 3. The Washington Talks
    • 4. The Japanese People and the War
    • 5. The Road to Hiroshima and Nagasaki
    • 6. The Pacific War in the History of the Twentieth Century
    • 7. Dismantling the Meiji State
  • 19. The Yoshida Years
    • 1. The Social Context of Postsurrender Japan
    • 2. Reform and Reconstruction
    • 3. Planning for Recovery
    • 4. Politics and the Road to San Francisco
    • 5. The San Francisco System
    • 6. Intellectuals and the Yoshida Structure
    • 7. Postwar Culture
  • 20. Japan Since Independence
    • 1. Politics and the 1955 System
    • 2. The Rise to Economic Superpower
    • 3. Social Change
    • 4. The Examined Life
    • 5. Japan in World Affairs
    • 6. Japan at Millennium’s End
  • Further Reading
  • Notes
  • Credits
  • Index

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