Routledge handbook of modern Japanese history

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Title
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Contents
List of figures
List of maps
List of tables
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chronology
Part I Nation, empire, borders
	1 Japan in the global twentieth century
	2 Alliances and enmities: relations with Great Britain and Europe
	3 Japan and Asia
	4 Unequal treaties, consular jurisdiction, and treaty port society
	5 The English-language press networks in the transnational history of East Asia, 1850–1950
	6 Japan’s colonial empire
	7 Race and racism
	8 Overseas migration, 1868–1945
	9 Ryukyu/Okinawa’s trajectory: from periphery to centre, 1600–2015
Part II Ideologies and the political system
	10 From Edo to Meiji: the public sphere and political criticism in nineteenth-century Japan
	11 State Shinto
	12 Conservatism and conservative reaction
	13 The military and politics
	14 Liberalism, internationalism, and democracy
	15 The bureaucracy and politics
	16 The debate on fascism in Japanese historiography
	17 Japan’s 1930s: crisis, fascism, and social imperialism
	18 Japan’s war of words: World War II propaganda
Part III Economy and society
	19 The path of economic development from the late nineteenth century to the economic miracle
	20 The yen: Japan’s national currency
	21 Urban life and the city idea in the twentieth century
	22 Cooperatives and grassroots developments
	23 The emergence of trade unions
	24 The postwar employment system
	25 Genders, sexualities and bodies in modern Japanese history
	26 Religion in the postwar era
	27 Washoku, heritage and national identity
	28 Environmental history
Part IV Historical legacies and memory
	29 Debates over historical consciousness
	30 History and the state in postwar Japan
	31 The politics of Yasukuni Shrine and war memory
Bibliography
Index