The Heritage of Japanese Civilization
For survey courses in the History of Asia and the History of Japan.\ This brief survey of the long and rich history of Japan, written by one of the world's leading scholars in the field, provides an overall framework for understanding this great nation from its origins to the present day. The book explores the arts and literature, political change, economic advancement, and developments in society, commerce, and culture.
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For survey courses in the History of Asia and the History of Japan.This brief survey of the long and rich history of Japan, written by one of the world's leading scholars in the field, provides an overall framework for understanding this great nation from its origins to the present day. The book explores the arts and literature, political change, economic advancement, and developments in society, commerce, and culture.
MapsDocuments Preface Chapter 1 Japanese History: Origins to the Twelfth Century BeginningsJomon CultureThe Yayoi RevolutionThe Spread of Yayoi CultureTomb Culture, the Yamato State, and KoreaReligion in Early JapanNara and Heian JapanSeventh Century DevelopmentsNara and Early Heian GovernmentA Japanese Pattern of GovernmentPeople, Land and TaxesRise of the SamuraiAristocratic Culture and BuddhismChinese Tradition in JapanBirth of Japanese LiteratureNara and Heian BuddhismEarly Japanese History in Historical PerspectiveChapter 2 Medieval Japan: The Twelfth to Sixteenth CenturiesMilitary Rule by the Taira, Minamoto, and AshikagaThe Taira at the Kyoto CourtRise of Minamoto YoritomoThe Question of Feudalism in Twelfth Century JapanKamakura Rule After YoritomoWomen in Warrior SocietyThe Ashikaga EraAgriculture, Commerce, and Medieval GuildsWarring States EraWar of All Against AllFoot Soldier RevolutionPiracy, Trade, and Foreign RelationsBuddhism and Medieval CultureJapanese Pietism: Pure Land and Nichiren BuddhismZen BuddhismNo PlaysMedieval Japan in Historical PerspectiveChapter 3 The Era of Tokugawa Rule (1600—1868)Early Unifiers: Nobunaga and HideyoshiThe Seventeenth CenturyPolitical Engineering by Tokugawa IeyasuEconomic and Social ChangeThe Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth CenturiesThe Forty-Seven RoninCycles of ReformBureaucratizationThe Later Tokugawa EconomyTokugawa CultureLiterature and DramaConfucian ThoughtOther Developments in ThoughtLate Traditional Japan in Historical Perspective Chapter 4 Modern Japan, 1853-1945Overthrow of the Tokugawa Bakufu (1853—1868)The SettingThe Politics of RestorationBuilding the Meiji State (1868—1890)Centralization and ReformsNew IdeasBirth of the Political PartiesThe Meiji ConstitutionGrowth of a Modern EconomyFirst Phase: Model Industries, the 1870sSecond Phase: Private Entrepreneurs, the1880s and 1890sThird Phase: Sustained Growth, 1905-1929Fourth Phase: Depression and RecoveryMeiji Imperialism and the International OrderEducation, Urbanization, and Modern IdeasThe Politics of Imperial Japan (1890—1927)The First Decade of Diet Politics (1890—1900)The Taisho Political Crisis, 1912-1913The Hara Cabinet, 1918-1921The Kato Cabinet 1924-1926Militarism and War (1927—1945)A Crisis in ManchuriaThe Great DepressionThe Radical Right and the MilitaryThe Pacific WarJapanese Militarism and German NaziismModern Japan in Historical PerspectiveChapter 5 Japan, the Recent Decades The Postwar Occupation and Yoshida, 1945-1954The American OccupationYoshida Shigeru and Japan’s Postwar PolicyThe Cold War and the Japanese Transformation, 1955-1989Double Digit Economic GrowthSociety and CulturePolitics: The One and a Half Party SystemThe History of the Present: After 1990The EconomySociety and Culture: Problems and ProspectsA New Age of PoliticsInternational RelationsJapan’s Future in Historical Perspective Index
