Japan and the shackles of the past /
Japan is one of the world's wealthiest and most technologically advanced nations, and its rapid ascent to global power status after 1853 remains one of the most remarkable stories in modern world history. Yet it has not been an easy path. Military catastrophe, political atrophy, and economic dy...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Does Japan Still Matter?
- Part One. Past
- Japan Before the Edo Period
- The Incubation of the Modern Japanese State
- Restoration to Occupation
- Appendix: The Meiji Leaders
- The Miracle
- The Institutions of High-speed Growth
- Consequences (Intended and Otherwise)
- Part Two. Present
- Economy and Finance
- Business
- Social and Cultural Change
- Politics
- Appendix: Important Political Figures of Postwar Japan
- Japan and the World.