Beyond paradoxology
Subtitle: searching for the logic of Japanese history
By: Shiro Ishii.
Publisher: Endowed Chair in "Politics and Mass Media", Graduate School of Law and Politics, University of Tokyo
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Tokyo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9784903425245
Subjects: Law -- Japan -- History.; Japan -- History.; Japan -- Historiography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Beyond paradoxology : searching for the logic of Japanese history; value: 'Bushido', a soul of Japan or an invented religion?; value: Traditions of narrative history and the recent history textbooks debate : a pending issue for Japan in the twenty-first century; value: Feudalism and ie in Japan; value: On the usage of the term feudalism in Japanese history; value: On warrior terminology in mediaeval Japan : samurai, kenin, kerai and bushi; value: The historical meaning of the establishment of the warrior's government (shogunate) in Japanese mediaeval age; value: Pre-modern law and the Tokugawa political structure; value: The development of Japanese law in the Meiji period; value: Crime and punishment : Japanese traditions.