Modern Japan
Subtitle: a social and political history
By: Elise K. Tipton.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415418706; 9780415418713; 9780203928851
Subjects: Japan -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Tokugawa background : the ideal and the real; title: The mid-century crisis; title: The early Meiji Revolution; title: The 1880s and 1890s : defining a Japanese national identity; title: Late Meiji : an end and a beginning; title: An emerging mass society : demands for equity and the dilemmas of choice; title: Contesting the modern in the 1930s; title: The dark valley; title: "Enduring the unendurable" and starting over in the "new" Japan; title: Conflict and consensus in the 1950s; title: The "economic miracle"; title: and its underside; title: The "rich country"; title: The "lost decade"; title: Whither Japan?