Includes bibliographical references (page 34 3rd group) and index.
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Traditional Japan. The Tokugawa polity ; Cities, commerce, and lifestyles ; Self and society -- Japan in revolutionary times. The Meiji restoration ; "New beginnings" ; Crafting a constitutional polity ; Toward an industrial future ; Living the Meiji dream -- Japan in the new century. The acquisition of empire ; New awakenings, new modernities ; The tumultuous twenties -- Japan at war. "A period of national emergency" ; In pursuit of a new order ; The greater East Asia war -- Contemporary Japan. The years of occupation ; Recovery and affluence ; Another new century.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Chronicles the history of modern Japan from the Tokugawa Ieyasu's investiture as shogun in the Fushimi Castle in 1603 to the cultural and societal changes which occurred in the twentieth century.