Mordern Japan Book

List of illustrations

1 Tokugawa background: the ideal and the real 1

2 The mid-century crisis 21

3 The early Meiji revolution 39

4 The 1880s and 1890s: defining a Japanese national identity 59

5 Late Meiji: an end and a beginning 77

6 An emerging mass society 93

7 Contesting the modern in the 1930s 114

8 The dark valley 132

9 'Enduring the unendurable' and starting over in the 'new' Japan 153

10 Conflict and consensus in the 1950s 171

11 The 'economic miracle' ... and its underside 187

12 The 'rich country' 203

13 The 'lost decade' 221

14 Whither Japan? 240

Glossary of Japanese terms 261

Chronology of major events 263

Further reading 275

Index 287

Maps

1.1 Modern Japan

8.1 The Japanese Empire 143

Figures

4.1 School attendance 64

11.1 Trend in real per capita GDP 192

11.2 Labour force participation of men and women 196

14.1 Population pyramids 245

Plates

1.1 Hiroshige, 'The Suruga Bank of the Oi River near Shimada', 53 Stations of the Tokaido Road, Station 24 7

1.2 A village headman's house. Wealth and high status were reflected in the 'plover gable' (chidori hafu), a nagayamon gate, and karesansui (rock and sand) garden. A nagayamon had servants' quarters, a storeroom and/or a stable attached to it, and was not permitted for small farmers. Now located in the Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum 14