A Companion to Japanese History

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William M. Tsutsui
John Wiley & Sons, Jul 20, 2009 - History - 640 pages
A Companion to Japanese History provides an authoritative overview of current debates and approaches within the study of Japan’s history.
  • Composed of 30 chapters written by an international group of scholars
  • Combines traditional perspectives with the most recent scholarly concerns
  • Supplements a chronological survey with targeted thematic analyses
  • Presents stimulating interventions into individual controversies
 

Contents

JAPAN BEFORE 1600
11
The Heian Period
30
Medieval Japan
47
Unification Consolidation and Tokugawa Rule
69
Social and Economic Change in Tokugawa Japan
86
Intellectual Change in Tokugawa Japan
101
Cultural Developments in Tokugawa Japan
117
FROM THE MEIJI RESTORATION THROUGH
137
Postwar Society and Culture
315
Japan in the World
333
Women and Sexuality in Premodern Japan
351
Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan
372
Class and Social Stratification
389
Japan in Asia
407
Center and Periphery in Japanese Historical Studies
424
Modernity Water and the Environment in Japan
443

CONTENTS
156
Social and Economic Change in Prewar Japan
172
Intellectual Life Culture and the Challenge of Modernity
189
External Relations
207
The Japanese Empire
224
The FifteenYear War
241
The Occupation
265
Postwar Politics
281
The Postwar Japanese Economy
299
Popular Culture
460
Rural Japan and Agriculture
477
Business and Labor
493
Authority and the Individual
511
National Identity and Nationalism
528
Consolidated Bibliography
545
Index
593
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William M. Tsutsui is Professor of History at the University of Kansas. He is the author of Godzilla on My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters (2004), Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in Twentieth-Century Japan (1998), and Banking Policy in Japan: American Efforts at Reform During the Occupation (1988).

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