Title: Modern Japan : a social and political history /
Authors: Tipton, Elise K.
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Japan Social conditions.; Japan History
Abstract: "This comprehensive textbook provides a concise and fascinating introduction to the social, cultural and political history of modern Japan. Ranging from the Tokugawa period to the present day, Modern Japan charts the country's evolution into a modernized, economic and political world power." "The book widens the traditional approach to Japanese history to include social as well as political factors in the country's growth. Elise Tipton examines social groups and developments that have previously been neglected, such as gender issues, ethnic minorities, labour conditions, popular culture and daily life. Through this charting of a complex web of social and political interaction, her book represents a unique picture of the diversity of modern Japan and its people." "Highly accessible, this completely up-to-date textbook is an essential resource for students, teachers and scholars of Japanese Studies, History and Politics." -- Book jacket.
Contents: Tokugawa background: the ideal and the real. -- The mid-century crisis. -- The early Meiji Revolution. -- The 1880s and 1890s: defining a Japanese national identity. -- Late Meiji: an end and a beginning. -- An emerging mass society: demands for equity and the dilemmas of choice. -- Contesting the modern in the 1930s. -- The dark valley. -- 'Enduring the unendurable' and starting over in the 'new' Japan. -- Conflict and consensus in the 1950s. -- The 'economic miracle' ... and its underside. -- The 'rich country'. -- The 'lost decade'.