| Maps |
| Documents |
| Preface |
| Japanese History: Origins to the Twelfth Century / Chapter 1： |
| Beginnings |
| Jomon Culture |
| The Yayoi Revolution |
| The Spread of Yayoi Culture |
| Tomb Culture, the Yamato State, and Korea |
| Religion in Early Japan |
| Nara and Heian Japan |
| Seventh Century Developments |
| Nara and Early Heian Government |
| A Japanese Pattern of Government |
| People, Land and Taxes |
| Rise of the Samurai |
| Aristocratic Culture and Buddhism |
| Chinese Tradition in Japan |
| Birth of Japanese Literature |
| Nara and Heian Buddhism |
| Early Japanese History in Historical Perspective |
| Medieval Japan: the Twelfth to Sixteenth Centuries / Chapter 2： |
| Military Rule by the Taira, Minamoto, and Ashikaga |
| The Taira at the Kyoto Court |
| Rise of Minamoto Yoritomo |
| The Question of Feudalism in Twelfth Century Japan |
| Kamakura Rule After Yoritomo |
| Women in Warrior Society |
| The Ashikaga Era |
| Agriculture, Commerce, and Medieval Guilds |
| Warring States Era |
| War of All Against All |
| Foot Soldier Revolution |
| Piracy, Trade, and Foreign Relations |
| Buddhism and Medieval Culture |
| Japanese Pietism: Pure Land and Nichiren Buddhism |
| Zen Buddhism |
| No Plays |
| Medieval Japan in Historical Perspective |
| The Era of Tokugawa Rule (1600âÇô1868) / Chapter 3： |
| Early Unifiers: Nobunaga and Hideyoshi |
| The Seventeenth Century |
| Political Engineering by Tokugawa Ieyasu |
| Economic and Social Change |
| The Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries |
| The Forty-Seven Ronin |
| Cycles of Reform |
| Bureaucratization |
| The Later Tokugawa Economy |
| Tokugawa Culture |
| Literature and Drama |
| Confucian Thought |
| Other Developments in Thought |
| Late Traditional Japan in Historical Perspective |
| Modern Japan, 1853-1945 / Chapter 4： |
| Overthrow of the Tokugawa Bakufu (1853âÇô1868) |
| The Setting |
| The Politics of Restoration |
| Building the Meiji State (1868âÇô1890) |
| Centralization and Reforms |
| New Ideas |
| Birth of the Political Parties |
| The Meiji Constitution |
| Growth of a Modern Economy |
| First Phase: Model Industries, the 1870s |
| Second Phase: Private Entrepreneurs, the1880s and 1890s |
| Third Phase: Sustained Growth, 1905-1929 |
| Fourth Phase: Depression and Recovery |
| Meiji Imperialism and the International Order |
| Education, Urbanization, and Modern Ideas |
| The Politics of Imperial Japan (1890âÇô1927) |
| The First Decade of Diet Politics (1890âÇô1900) |
| The Taisho Political Crisis, 1912-1913 |
| The Hara Cabinet, 1918-1921 |
| The Kato Cabinet 1924-1926 |
| Militarism and War (1927âÇô1945) |
| A Crisis in Manchuria |
| The Great Depression |
| The Radical Right and the Military |
| The Pacific War |
| Japanese Militarism and German Naziism |
| Modern Japan in Historical Perspective |
| Japan, the Recent Decades / Chapter 5： |
| The Postwar Occupation and Yoshida, 1945-1954 |
| The American Occupation |
| Yoshida Shigeru and Japan's Postwar Policy |
| The Cold War and the Japanese Transformation, 1955-1989 |
| Double Digit Economic Growth |
| Society and Culture |
| Politics: the One and a Half Party System |
| The History of the Present: After 1990 |
| The Economy |
| Society and Culture: Problems and Prospects |
| A New Age of Politics |
| International Relations |
| Japan's Future in Historical Perspective |
| Index |
| Maps |
| Documents |
| Preface |
| Japanese History: Origins to the Twelfth Century / Chapter 1： |
| Beginnings |
| Jomon Culture |
