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| Acknowledgments | vii | |
| Introduction | xiii | |
| The Shaping of Japan's World (4000 B.C.-A.D. 250) | 1 | |
| Geography | 1 | |
| Jimmu and Creation Myths of Japan | 4 | |
| Jomon Japan (2500-250 B.C.) | 6 | |
| Yayoi Japan (250 B.C.-A.D. 250) | 10 | |
| The Way of the Gods--Shinto Thought | 14 | |
| Transition from Yayoi to Yamato Japan (250-600) | 21 | |
| Buddhism and Japan | 25 | |
| The Seventeen-Article Constitution of 604 | 28 | |
| Confucianism and Japan | 28 | |
| Buddhism and the Seventeen-Article Constitution | 32 | |
| Legalism and the Constitution | 35 | |
| The Soga Fall | 36 | |
| Heian Japan (794-1185) | 39 | |
| Emperor/Land/Taxes | 39 | |
| A Capital for an Emperor | 41 | |
| Japan on Its Own | 43 | |
| The Shoen (Estate) System | 46 | |
| The Rise of the Military Class | 48 | |
| Heian Culture | 51 | |
| Civil War and the Rise of the Shogunate | 54 | |
| Shogun Rule in Japan (1192-1868) | 57 | |
| The Kamakura Bakufu (1192-1333) | 57 | |
| Hojo Power | 58 | |
| Mongol Invasions | 59 | |
| Emperor Go-Daigo (1288-1339) | 62 | |
| Muromachi Japan (1338-1573) | 64 | |
| Medieval Culture in Japan | 65 | |
| The Warring States Period | 70 | |
| Japan's Three Unifiers | 77 | |
| Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582) | 78 | |
| Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536-1598) | 79 | |
| Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616) | 83 | |
| Tokugawa Japan (1600-1868) | 85 | |
| Daimyo and Division of the Land (Sankin Kotai) | 85 | |
| The Role of the Peasants | 91 | |
| The Emergence of the Japanese City | 93 | |
| Foreign Relations | 98 | |
| Nineteenth-Century Crises | 100 | |
| Pressure from Outside | 102 | |
| America and Japan | 104 | |
| Perry and the Opening of Japan | 106 | |
| Japan's Response to the West | 109 | |
| Meiji Japan (1868-1912) | 113 | |
| Japan's Modernization | 115 | |
| Meiji Constitution | 122 | |
| Industrialization and Military Victories | 124 | |
| Japan at the End of the Meiji Era | 126 | |
| Taisho Japan (1912-1926) | 127 | |
| Taisho Democracy | 129 | |
| Tensions with the West | 131 | |
| Social Revolution | 134 | |
| Showa Japan (1926-1989) | 139 | |
| The Rise of Militarism (1927-1936) | 139 | |
| Japan at War (1937-1945) | 146 | |
| The MacArthur/Yoshida Years (1945-1951) | 165 | |
| Japan's Economic Marvel | 173 | |
| Japanese-U.S. Relations | 175 | |
| Japan and the Future | 177 | |
| Conclusion | 183 | |
| Glossary of Japanese Names and Terms | 189 | |
| Bibliography | 203 | |
| Index | 207 |
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William Gregory
reviewed JAPAN: AN ILLUS HIST > on May 25, 2011
JAPAN
Useful as a quick primer but superficial to the point that you can probably get a more nuanced overview of japanese history from wikipedia.
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