| Maps, Tables, and Figures |
| Preface |
| Introduction: Enduring Imprints of the Longer Past |
| Crisis of the Tokugawa Regime / Part 1.： |
| The Tokugawa Polity / 1.： |
| Unification |
| The Tokugawa Political Settlements |
| The Daimyo |
| The Imperial Institution |
| The Samurai |
| Villagers and City-Dwellers |
| The Margins of the Japanese and Japan |
| Social and Economic Transformations / 2.： |
| The Seventeenth-Century Boom |
| Riddles of Stagnation and Vitality |
| The Intellectual World of Late Tokugawa / 3.： |
| Ideological Foundations of the Tokugawa Regime |
| Cultural Diversity and Contradictions |
| Reform, Critiques, and Insurgent Ideas |
| The Overthrow of the Tokugawa / 4.： |
| The Western Powers and the Unequal Treaties |
| The Crumbling of Tokugawa Rule |
| Politics of Terror and Accommodation |
| Bakufu Revival, the Satsuma-Choshu Insurgency, and Domestic Unrest |
| Modern Revolution, 1868-1905 / Part 2.： |
| The Samurai Revolution / 5.： |
| Programs of Nationalist Revolution |
| Political Unification and Central Bureaucracy |
| Eliminating the Status System |
| The Conscript Army |
| Compulsory Education |
| The Monarch at the Center |
| Building a Rich Country |
| Stances toward the World |
| Participation and Protest / 6.： |
| Political Discourse and Contention |
| Movement for Freedom and People's Rights |
| Samurai Rebellions, Peasant Uprisings, and New Religions |
| Participation for Women |
| Treaty Revision and Domestic Politics |
| The Meiji Constitution |
| Social, Economic, and Cultural Transformations / 7.： |
| Landlords and Tenants |
| Industrial Revolution |
| The Work Force and Labor Conditions |
| Spread of Mass and Higher Education |
| Culture and Religion |
| Affirmations of Japanese Identity and Destiny |
| Empire and Domestic Order / 8.： |
| The Trajectory to Empire |
| Contexts of Empire, Capitalism, and Nation-Building |
| The Turbulent World of Diet Politics |
| The Era of Popular Protest |
| Engineering Nationalism |
| Imperial Japan From Ascendance to Ashes / Part 3.： |
| Economy and Society / 9.： |
| Wartime Boom and Postwar Bust |
| Landlords, Tenants, and Rural Life |
| City Life: Middle and Working Classes |
| Cultural Responses to Social Change |
| Democracy and Empire between the World Wars / 10.： |
| The Emergence of Party Cabinets |
| The Structure of Parliamentary Government |
| Ideological Challenges |
| Strategies of Imperial Democratic Rule |
| Japan, Asia, and the Western Powers |
| The Depression Crisis and Responses / 11.： |
| Economic and Social Crisis |
| Breaking the Impasse: New Departures Abroad |
| Toward a New Social and Economic Order |
| Toward a New Political Order |
| Japan in Wartime / 12.： |
| Wider War in China |
| Toward Pearl Harbor |
| The Pacific War |
| Mobilizing for Total War |
| Living in the Shadow of War |
| Ending the War |
| Burdens and Legacies of War |
| Occupied Japan: New Departures and Durable Structures / 13.： |
| Bearing the Unbearable |
| The American Agenda: Demilitarize and Democratize |
| Japanese Responses |
| The Reverse Course |
| Toward Recovery and Independence: Another Unequal Treaty? |
| Postwar and Contemporary Japan, 1952-2000 / Part 4.： |
| Economic and Social Transformations / 14.： |
| The Postwar "Economic Miracle" |
| Transwar Patterns of Community, Family, School, and Work |
| Shared Experiences and Standardized Lifeways of the Postwar Era |
| Differences Enduring and Realigned |
| Managing Social Stability and Change |
| Images and Ideologies of Social Stability and Change |
| Political Struggles and Settlements of the High-Growth Era / 15.： |
| Political Struggles |
| The Politics of Accommodation |
| Global Connections: Oil Crisis and the End of High Growth |
| Global Power in a Polarized World: Japan in the 1980s / 16.： |
| New Roles in the World and New Tensions |
| Economy: Thriving through the Oil Crises |
| Politics: The Conservative Heyday |
| Society and Culture in the Exuberant Eighties |
| Beyond the Postwar Era / 17.： |
| The End of Showa and the Transformation of the Symbol Monarchy |
| The End of LDP Hegemony |
| The Economic Bubble Bursts |
| The Japanese Disease at Century's End? |
| Issues for the Future |
| Prime Ministers of Japan, 1885-2001 / Appendix A.： |
| Vote Totals and Seats by Party, 1945-2000 Lower House Elections / Appendix B.： |
| Notes |
| Select Bibliography |
| Index |
| Maps, Tables, and Figures |
| Preface |
| Introduction: Enduring Imprints of the Longer Past |
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