Timeline of Historical Events; A Wonderful Place; Early Japan; Feudal Japan; The Tokugawa Era, 1600-1868; The Meiji Era, 1868-1912; Prewar Japan; The Pacific War and Allied Occupation; A New Japan; Japan in the 1990s; Appendices; Noted People in the History of Japan; Sat-Cho Oligarchy (Genro); Premiers; Glossary of Selected Terms.
LOUIS G. PEREZ is Professor of Japanese History at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. He has been a Fulbright Scholar to China and a Visiting Scholar at the Japan Center for Michigan University at Hikone, Japan. He is the author of numerous articles on Japanese history, as well as of The Dalai Lama (1993) and a scholarly monograph on the Japanese foreign minister Mutsu Munemitsu.
?Perez holds the attention of secondary school students and a
general public with this topical, readable history of the
country....This eminently accessible reference will be useful to
students needing current information on Japan, and readable for a
young history buff.... Highly Recommended.?-The Book Report
?The strength of this book lies above all in its clear and concise
treatment of cultural, religious, and intellectual trends. Among
the highlights of the work are the author's informed and accessible
discussions of Shinto and Buddhism in early Japan, of
Neo-Confucianism and its adaption in the Tokugawa period, and of
the arts and popular culture in Japan today--the latter of which
instructors in introductory college courses might profitably
assign. Perez also pays more attention to the history of Japanese
women than do most survey writers and incorporates colorful
anecdotes from Japanese social history.?-The Journal of Asian
Studies
?This volume is suitable for the circulating collections of public
and school libraries.?-American Reference Books Annual
"Perez holds the attention of secondary school students and a
general public with this topical, readable history of the
country....This eminently accessible reference will be useful to
students needing current information on Japan, and readable for a
young history buff.... Highly Recommended."-The Book Report
"This volume is suitable for the circulating collections of public
and school libraries."-American Reference Books Annual
"The strength of this book lies above all in its clear and concise
treatment of cultural, religious, and intellectual trends. Among
the highlights of the work are the author's informed and accessible
discussions of Shinto and Buddhism in early Japan, of
Neo-Confucianism and its adaption in the Tokugawa period, and of
the arts and popular culture in Japan today--the latter of which
instructors in introductory college courses might profitably
assign. Perez also pays more attention to the history of Japanese
women than do most survey writers and incorporates colorful
anecdotes from Japanese social history."-The Journal of Asian
Studies
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