The book treats the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries in considerable detail and gives fullest coverage to the twentieth century when this island nation became a major player on the stage of world history.
Takafusa Nakamura, Economic Growth in Prezvar japan (New Haven: YUP, 1983), p. 185. Osaka's industrial development is examined in Carl Mosk, japanese Industrial History: Technology, Urbanization, and Economic Growth (Armonk, NY.
A history of Japan from ancient times to today explores Japan's impact on the modern world and examines its unique past and culture to explain its achievements and responses to world events.
First published in 1903, this three volume set deals with the history of Japan from its origins to the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
The social change that engulfed rural Japan after 1950 is nicely evoked in the delightful work by Ronald P. Dore, ... A more recent look at urban life near Kyoto is Eyal BenAri, Changing Japanese Suburbia, A Study of Two PresentDay ...
A classic of Japanese history, this book is the preeminent work on the history of Japan. Newly revised and updated, A History of Japan is a single-volume, complete history of the nation of Japan.
A History of Japan
This is the concluding volume of a three-volume work that culminates the life study of the West's most distinguished scholar of Japanese history. A straightforward narrative of the development of...
... Japan, University of Hawaii Press. Kumagai, F. (with D. Keyser), 1996, Unmasking Japan Today: The Impact of Traditional Values on Modern Japanese Society, Praeger Press, Westport and London. La Fleur, W., 1978, Mirror for the Moon: A ...
... Medieval Japan (Honolulu: UHP, 1993), p. 181. 19 Berry, The Culture of Civil War, p. 153. 20 A recent study of the Ji Sect, or Yugy2-ha, is S. A. Thornton, Charisma and Community Formation in Medieval Japan, The Case of the Yugy2-ha ...