A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present

CONTENTS......Page 6
MAPS, TABLES, AND FIGURES......Page 10
PREFACE......Page 12
INDRODUCTION: ENDURING IMPRINTS OF THE LONGER PAST......Page 16
PART 1. CRISIS OF THE TOKUGAWA REGIME......Page 23
Unification......Page 24
The Tokugawa Political Settlements......Page 26
The Seventeenth-Century Boom......Page 35
Riddles of Stagnation and Vitality......Page 42
Ideological Foundations of the Tokugawa Regime......Page 49
Cultural Diversity and Contradictions......Page 52
Reform, Critiques, and Insurgent Ideas......Page 57
The Western Powers and the Unequal Treaties......Page 61
The Crumbling of Tokugawa Rule......Page 65
Politics of Terror and Accommodation......Page 69
Bakufu Revival, the Satsuma-Choshu Insurgency, and Domestic Unrest......Page 71
PART 2. MODERN REVOLUTION, 1868–1905......Page 75
5. The Samurai Revolution......Page 76
Programs of Nationalist Revolution......Page 77
Building a Rich Country......Page 85
Stances toward the World......Page 88
6. Participation and Protest......Page 92
Political Discourse and Contention......Page 93
Movement for Freedom and People’s Rights......Page 95
Samurai Rebellions, Peasant Uprisings, and New Religions......Page 100
Participation for Women......Page 103
Treaty Revision and Domestic Politics......Page 106
The Meiji Constitution......Page 107
Landlords and Tenants......Page 109
Industrial Revolution......Page 111
The Work Force and Labor Conditions......Page 115
Spread of Mass and Higher Education......Page 120
Culture and Religion......Page 123
Affirmations of Japanese Identity and Destiny......Page 126
The Trajectory to Empire......Page 130
Contexts of Empire, Capitalism, and Nation-Building......Page 138
The Turbulent World of Diet Politics......Page 141
The Era of Popular Protest......Page 146
Engineering Nationalism......Page 151
PART 3. IMPERIAL JAPAN FROM ASCENDANCE TO ASHES......Page 153
Wartime Boom and Postwar Bust......Page 154
Landlords, Tenants, and Rural Life......Page 159
City Life: Middle and Working Classes......Page 163
Cultural Responses to Social Change......Page 169
10. Democracy and Empire between the World Wars......Page 176
The Emergence of Party Cabinets......Page 177
The Structure of Parliamentary Government......Page 180
Ideological Challenges......Page 182
Strategies of Imperial Democratic Rule......Page 184
Japan, Asia, and the Western Powers......Page 188
Economic and Social Crisis......Page 197
Breaking the Impasse: New Departures Abroad......Page 201
Toward a New Social and Economic Order......Page 207
Toward a New Political Order......Page 211
Wider War in China......Page 219
Toward Pearl Harbor......Page 222
The Pacific War......Page 224
Mobilizing for Total War......Page 227
Living in the Shadow of War......Page 232
Ending the War......Page 236
Burdens and Legacies of War......Page 239
Bearing the Unbearable......Page 241
The American Agenda: Demilitarize and Democratize......Page 244
Japanese Responses......Page 249
The Reverse Course......Page 254
Toward Recovery and Independence: Another Unequal Treaty?......Page 255
PART 4. POSTWAR AND CONTEMPORARY JAPAN, 1952–2000......Page 259
The Postwar “Economic Miracle”......Page 260
Transwar Patterns of Community, Family, School, and Work......Page 266
Shared Experiences and Standardized Lifeways of the Postwar Era......Page 269
Differences Enduring and Realigned......Page 274
Managing Social Stability and Change......Page 277
Images and Ideologies of Social Stability and Change......Page 279
Political Struggles......Page 285
The Politics of Accommodation......Page 294
Global Connections: Oil Crisis and the End of High Growth......Page 302
New Roles in the World and New Tensions......Page 306
Economy: Thriving through the Oil Crises......Page 313
Politics: The Conservative Heyday......Page 316
Society and Culture in the Exuberant Eighties......Page 319
The End of Showa and the Transformation of the Symbol Monarchy......Page 325
The End of LDP Hegemony......Page 327
The Economic Bubble Bursts......Page 329
The Japanese Disease at Century’s End?......Page 335
Issues for the Future......Page 343
APPENDIX A. PRIME MINISTERS OF JAPAN, 1885–2000......Page 348
APPENDIX B. VOTE TOTALS AND SEATS BY PARTY, 1945–2000 LOWER HOUSE ELECTIONS......Page 350
NOTES......Page 360
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 378
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