Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Note on Usage ix
5. Introduction 3
6. The Tokugawa Period
7. Hayashi Kazan (1583-1657) and Hayashi Gahō (1618-80): Founders of Modern Historical Scholarship 15
8. Dai Nihon Shi[History of Great Japan] 29
9. Aral Hakuseki (1657-1725) and Yamagata Bantō (1748-1821): Pure Rationalism 42
10. Date Chihiro (1802-77): Three Stages in the History of Japan 54
11. The Resistance of the National Scholars 61
12. The Modern Century
13. European Influences on Meiji Historical Writing 71
14. The Beginning of Academic History 81
15. The Kume Kunitake Incident, 1890-2 92
16. The Development of Academic History 107
17. The Southern and Northern Courts Controversy, 1911 118
18. Eminent Historians in the 1930s: The Betrayal of Scientific History 131
19. The Commission of Inquiry into Historical Sites Related to Emperor Jinmu, 1940 180
20. Tsuda Sōkichi (1873-1961): An Innocent on the Loose 186
21. Epilogue: Historical Scholarship; Education, and Politics in Postwar Japan 201
22. Notes 217
23. References 237
24. Index 251