The New Cambridge History of Japan: Volume 3, The Modern Japanese Nation and Empire, c.1868 to the Twenty-First Century

A major new reference volume presenting innovative recent scholarship on Japan's modern history from c. 1868 to the twenty-first century.

Laura Hein (Edited by)

9781107196131, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 8 June 2023

860 pages
23.5 x 16.1 x 4.3 cm, 1.38 kg

This major new volume presents innovative recent scholarship on Japan's modern history, including its imperial past and transregional entanglements. An international team of leading scholars offer accessible and thought-provoking essays that present an expansive global vision of the archipelago's history from c. 1868 to the twenty-first century. Japan was the first non-Western society to become a modern nation and empire, to industrialize, and to deliver a high standard of living to virtually all its citizens, capturing international attention ever since. These Japanese efforts to reshape global hierarchies powered a variety of debates and conflicts, both at home and with people and places beyond Japan's shores. Drawing on the latest Japanese and English-language scholarship, this volume highlights Japan's distinctive and fast-changing history.

Introduction: placing modern Japanese history in the twenty-first century Laura Hein
Part I. Political sovereignty: centers and margins: 1. The transformative politics of the Meiji revolutions Eiko Maruko Siniawer
2. Japan and its margins: Okinawa, Hokkaido, Korea, Taiwan from the Meiji to the postwar period Jun Uchida, Asano Toyomi and Asano section trans. Yu Conrad Hirano
3. The Asia–Pacific War Yuki Tanaka
4. Japan's postwar subordination to the United States and its structure of dual authority Koseki Sh?ichi and Trans. Alexandra De Leon
5. The politics of citizenship in postwar Japan: Korean identity, and immigrant rights Erin Aeran Chung
6. The struggle to protect individual rights in postwar Japan: seven decades of progress Lawrence Repeta
7. Japan's decline: the Heisei Era (1989–2019) in world history Yoshimi Shunya and Trans. John Person
Part II. Environment, economy, and technology: 8. Japan: the arc of industrialization Mark Metzler
9. Japan's agriculture, the Empire, and postwar reconstruction Hiromi Mizuno
10. Building Japan's oil empire Brett L. Walker
11. Japan's transwar political economy Andrew Gordon
12. The Japanese economy: shifts in eras 1980–2000 Edward J. Lincoln
Part II. Social practices and cultures in modern Japan: 13. From status to gender in Meiji Japan Marnie S. Anderson
14. The modern Japanese metropolis, 1868–1970 Jordan Sand
15. Modern Japan's regional cultures Tessa Morris-Suzuki
16. Social experiences of war and occupation in twentieth-century Japan Masuda Hajimu
17. Locating social movements in Japan's long twentieth century Franziska Seraphim
18. Burakumin and human rights Ian Neary
19. Japanese mass media Tsuchiya Reiko and Trans. Michele M. Mason
20. Perceiving Japan: Japonismes east and west, 1860s–1960s Christopher Reed
21. Popular culture in modern Japan Michele M. Mason
22. Modern art in Japan and transnational exchange Asato Ikeda
23. A history of mentalities in modern Japan: premonitions of anxiety in economic prosperity in the early 1970s Narita Ry?ichi and Mark Pendleton.

Subject Areas: Asian history [HBJF]