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A Companion to Japanese History provides an authoritative overview of current debates and approaches within the study of Japan’s history.

• Composed of 30 chapters written by an international group of scholars
  
• Combines traditional perspectives with the most recent scholarly concerns
  
• Supplements a chronological survey with targeted thematic analyses
  
• Presents stimulating interventions into individual controversies

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The volume presents a chronological survey of Japanese history from the country’s earliest history up to the present day, giving readers insights into the key developments in each period of Japan’s past. It also examines themes and alternative histories, with a particular emphasis on approaches and issues that will shape the future development of scholarship in Japanese history.

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List of Maps viii
 
Notes on Contributors ix
 
Introduction 1
William M. Tsutsui
 
PART I JAPAN BEFORE 1600 11
 
1 Japanese Beginnings 13
Mark J. Hudson
 
2 The Heian Period 30
G. Cameron Hurst III
 
3 Medieval Japan 47
Andrew Edmund Goble
 
PART II EARLY MODERN JAPAN 67
 
4 Unification, Consolidation, and Tokugawa Rule 69
Philip C. Brown
 
5 Social and Economic Change in Tokugawa Japan 86
Edward E. Pratt
 
6 Intellectual Change in Tokugawa Japan 101
Peter Nosco
 
7 Cultural Developments in Tokugawa Japan 117
Lawrence E. Marceau
 
PART III MODERN JAPAN: FROM THE MEIJI RESTORATION THROUGH WORLD WAR II 137
 
8 Restoration and Revolution 139
James L. Huffman
 
9 Oligarchy, Democracy, and Fascism 156
Stephen S. Large
 
10 Social and Economic Change in Prewar Japan 172
Mark Jones and Steven Ericson
 
11 Intellectual Life, Culture, and the Challenge of Modernity 189
Elise K. Tipton
 
12 External Relations 207
Frederick R. Dickinson
 
13 The Japanese Empire 224
Y. Tak Matsusaka
 
14 The Fifteen-Year War 241
W. Miles Fletcher III
 
PART IV JAPAN SINCE 1945 263
 
15 The Occupation 265
Mark Metzler
 
16 Postwar Politics 281
Ray Christensen
 
17 The Postwar Japanese Economy 299
Bai Gao
 
18 Postwar Society and Culture 315
Wesley Sasaki-Uemura
 
19 Japan in the World 333
Glenn D. Hook
 
PART V THEMES IN JAPANESE HISTORY 349
 
20 Women and Sexuality in Premodern Japan 351
Hitomi Tonomura
 
21 Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan 372
Sally A. Hastings
 
22 Class and Social Stratification 389
Ian Neary
 
23 Japan in Asia 407
Leo Ching
 
24 Center and Periphery in Japanese Historical Studies 424
Michael Lewis
 
25 Modernity, Water, and the Environment in Japan 443
Gavan McCormack
 
26 Popular Culture 460
E. Taylor Atkins
 
27 Rural Japan and Agriculture 477
Eric C. Rath
 
28 Business and Labor 493
Charles Weathers
 
29 Authority and the Individual 511
J. Victor Koschmann
 
30 National Identity and Nationalism 528
Kevin M. Doak
 
Consolidated Bibliography 545
 
Index 593

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