ABSTRACT

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

chapter 1|17 pages

Tokugawa background

The ideal and the real

chapter 2|18 pages

The mid-century crisis

chapter 3|19 pages

The early Meiji Revolution

chapter 4|17 pages

The 1880s and 1890s

Defining a Japanese national identity

chapter 5|16 pages

Late Meiji

An end and a beginning

chapter 6|20 pages

An emerging mass society

Demands for equity and the dilemmas of choice

chapter 7|17 pages

Contesting the modern in the 1930s

chapter 8|18 pages

The dark valley

chapter 10|16 pages

Conflict and consensus in the 1950s

chapter 12|19 pages

The ‘rich country’

chapter 13|19 pages

The ‘lost decade’