A Modern history of Japan

	A Modern history of Japan
	from Tokugawa times to the present

MAPS, TABLES AND FIGURES IX
PREFACE XI
INTRODUCTION: ENDURING IMPRINTS OF THE LONGER PAST ....1

PART 1. CRISIS OF THE TOKUGAWA REGIME

1. The Tokugawa Polity ....9
Unification ....9
The Tokugawa Political Settlements ....11
The Daimyo ....13
The Imperial Institution ....14
The Samurai ....14
Villagers and City-Dwellers ....15
The Margins of the Japanese and Japan ....16

2. Social and Economic Transformations ....20
The Seventeenth-Century Boom ....20
Riddles of Stagnation and Vitality ....27

3. The Intellectual World of Late Tokugawa ....34
Ideological Foundations of the Tokugawa Regime ....34
Cultural Diversity and Contradictions ....37
Reform, Critiques, and Insurgent Ideas ....42

4. The Overthrow of the Tokugawa ....46
The Western Powers and the Unequal Treaties ....46
The Crumbling of Tokugawa Rule ....50
Politics of Terror and Accommodation ....54
Bakufu Revival, the Satsuma-Choshu Insurgency, and Domestic Unrest ....56

PART 2. MODERN REVOLUTION, 1868-....1905

5. The Samurai Revolution ....61
Programs of Nationalist Revolution ....62
Political Unification and Central Bureaucracy ....63
Eliminating the Status System ....64
The Conscript Army ....66
Compulsory Education ....67
The Monarch at the Center ....68
Building a Rich Country ....70
Stances toward the World ....73

6. Participation and Protest ....77
Political Discourse and Contention ....78
Movement for Freedom and People's Rights ....80
Samurai Rebellions, Peasant Uprisings, and New Religions ....85
Participation for Women ....88
Treaty Revision and Domestic Politics ....91
The Meiji Constitution ....92

7. Social, Economic, and Cultural Transformations ....94
Landlords and Tenants ....94
Industrial Revolution ....96
The Work Force and Labor Conditions ....100
Spread of Mass and Higher Education ....105
Culture and Religion ....108
Affirmations of Japanese Identity and Destiny ....111

8. Empire and Domestic Order ....115
The Trajectory to Empire ....115
Contexts of Empire, Capitalism, and Nation-Building ....123
The Turbulent World of Diet Politics ....126
The Era of Popular Protest ....131
Engineering Nationalism ....136

PART 3. IMPERIAL JAPAN FROM ASCENDANCE TO ASHES

9. Economy and Society ....139
Wartime Boom and Postwar Bust ....139
Landlords, Tenants, and Rural Life ....144
City Life: Middle and Working Classes ....148
Cultural Responses to Social Change ....154

10. Democracy and Empire between the World Wars ....161
The Emergence of Party Cabinets ....162
The Structure of Parliamentary Government ....165
Ideological Challenges ....167
Strategies of Imperial Democratic Rule ....169
Japan, Asia, and the Western Powers ....173

11. The Depression Crisis and Responses ....182
Economic and Social Crisis ....182
Breaking the Impasse: New Departures Abroad ....186
Toward a New Social and Economic Order ....192
Toward a New Political Order ....196

12. Japan in Wartime ....204
Wider War in China ....204
Toward Pearl Harbor ....207
The Pacific War ....209
Mobilizing for Total War ....212
Living in the Shadow of War ....217
Ending the War ....221
Burdens and Legacies of War ....224

13. Occupied Japan: New Departures and Durable Structures ....226
Bearing the Unbearable ....226
The American Agenda: Demilitarize and Democratize ....229
Japanese Responses ....234
The Reverse Course ....238
Toward Recovery and Independence: Another Unequal Treaty? ....240

PART 4. POSTWAR AND CONTEMPORARY JAPAN, 1952-....2000

14. Economic and Social Transformations ....245
The Postwar "Economic Miracle" ....245
Transwar Patterns of Community, Family, School, and Work ....251
Shared Experiences and Standardized Lifeways of the Postwar Era ....254
Differences Enduring and Realigned ....259
Managing Social Stability and Change ....262
Images and Ideologies of Social Stability and Change ....264

15. Political Struggles and Settlements of the High-Growth Era ....270
Political Struggles ....270
The Politics of Accommodation ....279
Global Connections: Oil Crisis and the End of High Growth ....287

16. Global Power in a Polarized World: Japan in the 1980s ....291
New Roles in the World and New Tensions ....291
Economy: Thriving through the Oil Crises ....298
Politics: The Conservative Heyday ....301
Society and Culture in the Exuberant Eighties ....304

17. Beyond the Postwar Era ....310
The End of Showa and the Transformation of the Symbol Monarchy ....310
The End of LDP Hegemony ....312
The Economic Bubble Bursts ....314
The Japanese Disease at Century's End? ....320
Issues for the Future ....328

APPENDIX A. PRIME MINISTERS OF JAPAN, 1885 - 2001 ....333
APPENDIX B. VOTE TOTALS AND SEATS BY PARTY, 1945 - 2000 LOWER HOUSE ELECTIONS ....335
NOTES ....345
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY ....363
INDEX ....371