Includes bibliographical references (pages 404-414) and index.
Contents:
18. Shock, Disaster, and the End of the Hesei Era: Beyond the 'Lost Decades'? 2. Social and Economic Transformations -- 3. The Intellectual World of Late Tokugawa -- 4. The Overthrow of the Tokugawa -- 5. The Samurai Revolution -- 6. Participation and Protest -- 7. Social, Economic, Environmental, and Cultural Transformations -- 8. Empire and Domestic Order -- 9. Economy and Society -- 10. Democracy and Empire between the World Wars -- 11. The Depression Crisis and Responses -- 12. Japan in Wartime -- 13. Occupied Japan: New Departures and Durable Structures -- 14. Economic and Social Transformations -- 15. Political Struggles and Settlements of the High-Growth Era -- 16. Global Power in a Polarized World: Japan in the 1980s -- 17. Japan's "Lost Decades": 1990s-2000s -- 18. Shock, Disaster, and the End of the Hesei Era: Beyond the 'Lost Decades'?
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