A Companion to Japanese History

List of Maps.

Notes on Contributors.

Introduction.

Part I: Japan before 1600.

Part II: Early Modern Japan.

Part III. Modern Japan, from Meiji Restoration through World War
II.

Part IV: Japan Since 1945.

Part V: Themes in Japanese History.

Consolidated Bibliography.

"William M. Tsutsui introduces A C:oml~anion to Japanese History as
an ambitious snapshot of Japan studies since the breakdown of the
authority of modernization theory in the last half of the twentieth
century." (Journal of World History, June 2010)

"The well-written contributions, which blend together
skillfully to form a unified whole, reflect the authors'
authoritative knowledge of Japan ... As a one-volume
tour-de-force of Japanese history, this book stands out."
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"Tsutsui has edited an invaluable and authoritative
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William M. Tsutsui is Professor of History at the University of Kansas. He is the author of Godzilla on My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters (2004), Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in Twentieth-Century Japan (1998), and Banking Policy in Japan: American Efforts at Reform During the Occupation (1988).

W. M. Tsutsui, University of Kansas, USA