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Introduction Enduring Imprints of the Longer Past 3
Pt. 1 Crisis of the Tokugawa Regime 10
1 The Tokugawa Polity 11
2 Social and Economic Transformations 22
3 The Intellectual World of Late Tokugawa 35
4 The Overthrow of the Tokugawa 47
Pt. 2 Modern Revolution, 1868-1905 60
5 The Samurai Revolution 61
6 Participation and Protest 76
7 Social, Economic, and Cultural Transformations 93
8 Empire and Domestic Order 113
Pt. 3 Imperial Japan from Ascendance to Ashes 138
9 Economy and Society 139
10 Democracy and Empire between the World Wars 161
11 The Depression Crisis and Responses 181
12 Japan in Wartime 202
13 Occupied Japan: New Departures and Durable Structures 224
Pt. 4 Postwar and Contemporary Japan, 1952-2000 242
14 Economic and Social Transformations 243
15 Political Struggles and Settlements of the High-Growth Era 268
16 Global Power in a Polarized World: Japan in the 1980s 289
17 Beyond the Postwar Era 308
App Prime Ministers of Japan, 1885-2007 335
Notes 337
Select Bibliography 357
Index 367
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Wai Lee
reviewed Modern History of Japan From Tokugawa Times to the Present on January 14, 2015
Modern History of Japan From Tokugawa Times to the Present
This was my textbook for a college course, "Modern Japan," a history class that I took for my Japanese major. As textbooks go, this one did a good job of showing multiple sides of the situation at any given time period. Gordon would talk for awhile about the prosperity of the Japanese people, but then he would address the groups that weren't so prosperous. He conveyed the important message that just because the country as a whole tends to feel a certain way or be in a certain situation, there are always people in every camp. He didn't lean in one direction too much.
Something that I was not quite happy with was the too-small focus on some large events in Japanese history. He spent a good amount of time discussing the 3.11 disaster, but I felt that the Rape of Nanking and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not receive enough attention. Luckily, my professor had prepared supplementary materials for us to read about those topics.
They might even be helpful to someone looking to do a little more reading into modern Japanese history, so I'll list them here (with the authors' names written in Lastname Firstname format in accordance with the customs of China and Japan):
Hiroshima: The Autobiography of Barefoot Gen by Nakazawa Keiji
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Chang Iris
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Murakami Haruki
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