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Summary
Author Biography
H. Orth Hirt Professor of History emeritus, Wittenberg University; author, Japan in World History (OUP, 2009), A Yankee in Meiji Japan: The Crusading Journalist Edward H. House (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), Creating a Public: People and Press in Meiji Japan (University of Hawai'I Press, 1987), Politics of the Meiji Press: The Life of Fukuchi En'ichiro (University of Hawaii Press, 1980); editor, Modern Japan: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture and Nationalism (Garland, 1997)
Table of Contents
What is a Document?
How to Read a Document
Introduction
Note on Sources and Interpretation
Chapter One: The Land of Shogun and Daimyo
A New Order
Reordering the World
Life Under the Tokugawa
The Shogunate Under Challenge
Chapter Two: Picture Essay: The Old Order Topples: 1853-68
Japan's Sense of the World
Perry's Arrival
A Land in Transition
Symbols of Change
Tumultuous Times
Demise of a Domain Lord
Chapter Three: Confronting the Modern World: 1868-89
Envisioning a New World
Creating a New World
A New Society
Chapter Four: Turning Outward: 1890-1912
Rising Nationalism
An Expansionist Turn
A Modern, Urban Society
Chapter Five: Imperial Democracy, 1912-30
Modern Times
Reining in Diversity
Chapter Six: The Dark Era: 1930-45
The Militarist Turn
War
Chapter Seven: The Reemergence: 1945-70
An Occupied Land
The Return to Normal Life
The Reemergence
Chapter Eight: Japan as a World Power after 1970
Surmounting Crises
Awash in Capital
Toward a New Century
Timeline
Further Reading
Websites
Text Credits
Picture Credits
Index
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