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Modern Japan: A History in Documents
Modern Japan: A History in Documents, Employing a wide range of primary source materials, Modern Japan: A History in Documents, Second Edition, provides a colorful narrative of Japan's development since 1600. A variety of diary entries, letters, legal documents, and poems brings to life the e, Modern Japan: A History in Documents has a rating of 3.5 stars
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  • Modern Japan: A History in Documents
  • Written by author James L. Huffman
  • Published by Oxford University Press, July 2010
  • Employing a wide range of primary source materials, Modern Japan: A History in Documents, Second Edition, provides a colorful narrative of Japan's development since 1600. A variety of diary entries, letters, legal documents, and poems brings to life the e
  • The civilization of Japan is an ancient one, and by the time the first Western visitors arrived in 1542, the Japanese people were as highly educated as any in the world and enjoyed a sophisticated culture. From the sixteenth century on, the country's hist
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Introduction 1

Note on Sources and Interpretation 4

1 The Land of Shogun and Daimyo 9

A New Order 12

Fresh Understandings of the World 19

Life Under the Tokugawa 26

The Shogunate Under Challenge 33

2 Picture Essay: The Old Order Topples: 1853-68 39

Japan's Sense of the World 41

Perry's Arrival 42

A Land in Transition 43

Symbols of Change 44

A Lord's Demise 46

The Era's End 47

3 Confronting the Modern World: 1868-89 49

Envisioning a New Age 51

Creating a New System 58

An Energetic Society 65

4 Turning Outward: 1890-1912 73

Rising Nationalism 75

An Expansionist Turn 79

A Modern, Urban Society 88

5 Imperial Democracy: 1912-30 97

Modern Times 99

Reining in Diversity 112

6 The Dark Era: 1930-45 121

The Militarist Turn 123

War 135

7 The Reemergence: 1945-70 149

An Occupied Land 151

The Return to Normal Life 160

Affluence 165

8 Japan as a World Power: After 1970 175

Surmounting Crises 177

Awash in Capital 184

Toward a New Century 190

Timeline 200

Further Reading 202

Websites 205

Text Credits 206

Picture Credits 209

Index 211


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