Studies in the Modernization of Japan

Changing Japanese Attitudes Toward Modernization Edited by Marius B. Jansen

The results of the process of modernization which started in Japan in the 19th century and continues today are remarkable in history. This volume contains essays by leading scholars on Japan, including two important studies on the...

Tradition and Modernization in Japanese Culture Edited by Donald H. Shively

Essays on the Iwakura Embassy, the realistic painter Takahashi Yuichi, the educational system, and music, show how the Japanese went about borrowing from the West in the first decades after the Restoration: the formulation of strategies...

Urban Networks in Ch'ing China and Tokugawa Japan Gilbert Rozman

Ch'ing China and Tokugawa Japan were unusually urbanized premodern societies where about one half of the world's urban population lived as late as 1800. Gilbert Rozman has drawn on both sociology and history to develop original methods...

Political Development in Modern Japan: Studies in the Modernization of Japan Edited by Robert E. Ward

Contents: I. "Introduction," Robert E. Ward. II. "A Monarch for Modern Japan," John Whitney Hall. III. "Political Modernization and the Meiji Genro" Roger F. Hackett. IV. "Fukuzawa Yukichi: The Philosophical Foundations of Meiji...