1. Some aspects of the Tokugawa outer world view / Karine Marandjian -- 2. The Meiji restoration : Japan's attempt to inherit China / Ben-Ami Shillony -- 3. Soviet Japanese studies on the problem of the Meiji Ishin and development of capitalism in Japan / Julia Mikhailova -- 4. Tradition as justification for change : history in the service of the Japanese government (1869-1893) / Margaret Mehl -- 5. Between revolution and reaction : the Japanese women's movement in the Taisho era / Ulrike Wöhr -- 6. Green before their time? the pre-war anarchist movement / John Crump -- 7. The status of the emperor as a national symbol in the fifteen-year war period 1931-1945 / Olavi K. Fält -- 8. The post-surrender democratisation of Japan : was it a revolution? / Isono Fujiko -- 9. A revolution in labour law? the fate of the trade union act in post-war Japan / Anthony Woodiwiss -- 10. Japanese perceptions of the 1989 eastern European revolution / Kato Tetsuro -- 11. Yellow Athena : the Japanese model and the east European revolution / David Williams.
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The end of the Cold War years has brought tumultuous change. Revolutionary changes, however, are not new to the Japanese.