Routledge handbook of modern Japanese history

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Cover Title Copyright Contents List of figures List of maps List of tables Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Chronology Part I Nation, empire, borders 1 Japan in the global twentieth century 2 Alliances and enmities: relations with Great Britain and Europe 3 Japan and Asia 4 Unequal treaties, consular jurisdiction, and treaty port society 5 The English-language press networks in the transnational history of East Asia, 1850–1950 6 Japan’s colonial empire 7 Race and racism 8 Overseas migration, 1868–1945 9 Ryukyu/Okinawa’s trajectory: from periphery to centre, 1600–2015 Part II Ideologies and the political system 10 From Edo to Meiji: the public sphere and political criticism in nineteenth-century Japan 11 State Shinto 12 Conservatism and conservative reaction 13 The military and politics 14 Liberalism, internationalism, and democracy 15 The bureaucracy and politics 16 The debate on fascism in Japanese historiography 17 Japan’s 1930s: crisis, fascism, and social imperialism 18 Japan’s war of words: World War II propaganda Part III Economy and society 19 The path of economic development from the late nineteenth century to the economic miracle 20 The yen: Japan’s national currency 21 Urban life and the city idea in the twentieth century 22 Cooperatives and grassroots developments 23 The emergence of trade unions 24 The postwar employment system 25 Genders, sexualities and bodies in modern Japanese history 26 Religion in the postwar era 27 Washoku, heritage and national identity 28 Environmental history Part IV Historical legacies and memory 29 Debates over historical consciousness 30 History and the state in postwar Japan 31 The politics of Yasukuni Shrine and war memory Bibliography Index