Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS XI
4. INTRODUCTION 1
5. I. WHEN DOES MODERN JAPAN BEGIN?
6. Introduction 5
7. The Problem: When Did Modern Japanese History Begin? 9
8. Meiji 1-10: Takeoff Time for Modern Japan 18
9. Agrarian Japan and Modernization 26
10. Japan's Modern Economic Growth: Capitalist Development Under Absolutism 34
11. II. HAVE "MODERN" AND "MODERNIZATION" BEEN OVERWORKED?
12. Introduction 43
13. Beyond Modernization: Society, Culture, and the Underside of Japanese History 45
14. Beyond Modern 48
15. III. THE MEIJI RESTORATION: PRODUCT OF GRADUAL DECAY, ABRUPT CRISIS, OR CREATIVE WILL?
16. Introduction 55
17. The Meiji Restoration 59
18. The Choshu Activists and 1868 66
19. The Meiji Restoration: From Obsolete Order to Effective Regime 72
20. IV. THE MEIJI GOVERNMENT AND ITS CRITICS: WHAT IS BEST FOR THE NATION?
21. Introduction 79
22. Prosperous Nation 83
23. The Movement for Liberty and Popular Rights 90
24. The Popular Rights Debate: Political or Ideological? 98
25. The Meiji Leadership: Matsukata Masayoshi 104
26. Tanaka Shozo: Champion of Local Autonomy 112
27. V. MEIJI IMPERIALISM: PLANNED OR UNPLANNED?
28. Introduction 121
29. Meiji Imperialism: "Phenomenally Rapid" 125
30. Meiji Imperialism: "Not Based on Preordained Design" 131
31. Meiji Imperialism: "Mostly Ad Woe" 136
32. Meiji Imperialism: Pacific Emigration or Continental Expansionism 141
33. VI. THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR: TURNING POINT IN JAPANESE HISTORY?
34. Introduction 149
35. The Takeoff Point of Japanese Imperialism 153
36. The Late Meiji Debate over Social Policy 158
37. External and Internal Problems After the War 163
38. VII. HOW DEMOCRATIC WAS TAISHO DEMOCRACY?
39. Introduction 171
40. The Patterns of Taisho Democracy 175
41. Political Parties and Nonissues in Taisho Democracy 181
42. The Nonliberal Roots of Taisho Democracy 191
43. VIII. JAPANESE COLONIALISM: ENLIGHTENED OR BARBARIC?
44. Introduction 199
45. Japanese Colonialism: An Overview 201
46. Japanese Colonialism: Discarding the Stereotypes 208
47. Colonizer and Colonized in Taiwan 214
48. Japanese Colonialism in Korea 222
49. Pan-Asianism in Action and Reaction 229
50. IX. THE 1930s: ABERRATION OR LOGICAL OUTCOME?
51. Introduction/ 237
52. The 1930s: A Logical Outcome of Meiji Policy 241
53. Detour Through a Dark Valley 252
54. Japan's Political Parties in Democracy, Fascism, and War 258
55. A Social Origin of the Second World War 269
56. The Lesson of the Textbooks 282
57. X. JAPAN'S FOREIGN POLICY IN THE 1930s: SEARCH FOR AUTONOMY OR NAKED AGGRESSION?
58. Introduction 291
59. Japan's Drive to Autarky 293
60. The Great Divorce: Japan and Universalism Between the World Wars 301
61. From Mukden to Pearl Harbor 308
62. Fogbound in Tokyo: Domestic Politics in Japan's Foreign Policymaking 316
63. Japan and "Asia for Asians" 323
64. XI. THE ALLIED OCCUPATION: HOW SIGNIFICANT WAS IT?
65. Introduction 331
66. The Allied Occupation: Catalyst Not Creator 335
67. Reform and Reconsolidation//. W. Dower 343 A Question of Paternity 343
68. A Question of Paternity 352
69. Some Questions and Answers 357
70. XII. JAPAN: EAST OR WEST?
71. Introduction 365
72. Not Westernization But Modernization 369
73. A Combination of East and West 376
74. Neither East nor West But All Alone 384
75. SUGGESTED READINGS 391
76. THE CONTRIBUTORS 401