Title: Modern Japan : a social history since 1868 /
Authors: Thomas, J. E., 1933-
Publisher: Longman,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Japan History
Contents: Out of isolation -- Racism -- Towards a new Japan -- Japan's outcastes: discrimination then; discrimination now -- 'All citizens are soldiers' -- Unfriendly neighbours: the peoples of Japan and Korea -- Japanese tradition and the curbing of 'dangerous thoughts' -- 'The wish of the dead child'. Women in Japan: a wish denied? -- The Pacific war: 'hakko ichiu' -- Education: from 'the fundamental character of our empire' to the cornerstone of modern Japan -- Swords to ploughshares: Japan since 1945.