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Contents
Series Foreword vii
Preface xi
Timeline of Historical Events xv
1 A Wonderful Place 1
2 Early Japan 11
3 Feudal Japan 25
4 The Tokugawa Era: 1600-1868 55
5 The Meiji Era: 1868-1912 93
6 Prewar Japan 129
7 The Pacific War and Allied Occupation 143
8 A New Japan 161
9 Japan in the 1990s 175
Appendixes
A. Notable People in the History of Japan 205
B. The Sat-Cho Oligarchy(Genro) 213
C. Premiers 215
Glossary of Selected Terms 217
Bibliographic Essay 225
Index 227