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ISBN 10: 0230346618

ISBN 13: 9780230346611

Author: Kenneth Henshall

In a rare combination of comprehensive coverage and sustained critical focus, this book examines Japan’s progress through its entire history to its current status as an economic, technological, and cultural superpower. A key factor is a pragmatic determination to succeed. Little-known facts are also brought to light, and the latest findings used.

A History of Japan From Stone Age to Superpower 3rd Table of contents:

Part One From the Stone Age to Statehood: Myths, Prehistory, and Ancient History (to 710)

1.1 Making Gods of Emperors: Ancient History According to Japan’s Myths

1.2 The Earliest Inhabitants (to ca 13,000 BC)

1.3 Stone Age Hunters and Gatherers: The Jo¯mon Period (ca 13,000 BC–ca 400 BC)

1.4 New Beginnings: The Yayoi Period (ca 400 BC–ca AD 250)

1.5 The Early State Emerges: The Kofun/Yamato Period (ca 250–710)

Review of Part One

Part Two Of Courtiers and Warriors: Early and Medieval History (710–1600)

2.1 Learning from the Chinese – within Limits: The Nara Period (710–794)

2.2 The Rise and Fall of the Court: The Heian Period (794–1185)

2.3 The Warrior State: The Kamakura Period (1185–1333)

2.4 A Nation at War with Itself: The Muromachi Period (1333–1568)

2.5 Reunifying the Nation: The Azuchi–Momoyama Period (1568–1600)

Review of Part Two

Part Three The Closed Country: The Tokugawa Period (1600–1868)

3.1 Stability Equals Survival: Establishing the Tokugawa Sho¯gunate

3.2 Samurai and Ethics

3.3 Commoners, Culture, and the Economy

3.4 The Return of the Foreign Devils and the Fall of the Sho¯gunate

Review of Part Three

Part Four Building a Modern Nation: The Meiji Period (1868–1912)

4.1 Consolidating the Restoration

4.2 The Westernisation of Society

4.3 Harnessing the Energies of the People

4.4 Moves towards Democracy – of Sorts

4.5 War and Politics

4.6 Guided Economic Development

4.7 An Era Comes to an End

Review of Part Four

Part Five The Excesses of Ambition: The Pacific War and its Lead-Up

5.1 The Fragile Democracy of Taisho¯ (1912–26)

5.2 A Troubled Start to Sho¯wa

5.3 The Ideologies Behind Expansionism

5.4 Preparations for War

5.5 The Pacific War

Review of Part Five

Part Six A Phoenix from the Ashes: Postwar Successes and Beyond

6.1 American Dreams for a New Japan

6.2 Cold War Realities Reshape the Dreams

6.3 Becoming Number One

6.4 A Superpower under Siege – and a Bubble

Review of Part Six

Part Seven A Superpower Adrift: The Heisei Years

7.1 The Bursting of the Bubble

7.2 A Political Merry-Go-Round

7.3 Life in Global Age Japan

Review of Part Seven

Conclusion: Lessons for Aspiring Superpowers

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