Japan : an illustrated history
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- ISBN: 0781809894
- ISBN: 9780781809894
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xv, 216 p. : ill., maps ; 18 cm. - Publisher: New York : Hippocrene Books, c2004.
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-206) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The Shaping of Japan's World (4000 B.C.-A.D. 250) -- Geography -- Jimmu and Creation Myths of Japan -- Jomon Japan (2500-250 B.C.) -- Yayoi Japan (250 B.C.-A.D. 250) -- The Way of the Gods -- Shinto Thought -- Transition from Yayoi to Yamato Japan (250-600) -- Buddhism and Japan -- The Seventeen-Article Constitution of 604 -- Confucianism and Japan -- Buddhism and the Seventeen-Article Constitution -- Legalism and the Constitution -- The Soga Fall -- Heian Japan (794-1185) -- Emperor/Land/Taxes -- A Capital for an Emperor -- Japan on Its Own -- The Shoen (Estate) System -- The Rise of the Military Class -- Heian Culture -- Civil War and the Rise of the Shogunate -- Shogun Rule in Japan (1192-1868) -- The Kamakura Bakufu (1192-1333) -- Hojo Power -- Mongol Invasions -- Emperor Go-Daigo (1288-1339) -- Muromachi Japan (1338-1573) -- Medieval Culture in Japan -- The Warring States Period -- Japan's Three Unifiers -- Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582) -- Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536-1598) -- Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616) -- Tokugawa Japan (1600-1868) -- Daimyo and Division of the Land (Sankin Kotai) -- The Role of the Peasants -- The Emergence of the Japanese City -- Foreign Relations -- Nineteenth-Century Crises -- Pressure from Outside -- America and Japan -- Perry and the Opening of Japan -- Japan's Response to the West -- Meiji Japan (1868-1912) -- Japan's Modernization -- Meiji Constitution -- Industrialization and Military Victories -- Japan at the End of the Meiji Era -- Taisho Japan (1912-1926) -- Taisho Democracy -- Tensions with the West -- Social Revolution -- Showa Japan (1926-1989) -- The Rise of Militarism (1927-1936) -- Japan at War (1937-1945) -- The MacArthur/Yoshida Years (1945-1951) -- Japan's Economic Marvel -- Japanese-U.S. Relations -- Japan and the Future. |
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