Sources of Japanese Tradition

Sources of Japanese Tradition

1600 to 2000

  • Auteur: Bary, Wm. Theodore De; Gluck, Carol; Tiedemann, Arthur
  • Éditeur: Columbia University Press
  • Collection: Introduction to Asian Civilizations
  • ISBN: 9780231129848
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780231518123
  • Lieu de publication:  New York , United States
  • Année de publication électronique: 2005
  • Mois : Avril
  • Langue: Anglais
Since it was first published more than forty years ago, Sources of Japanese Tradition, Volume 2, has been considered the authoritative sourcebook for readers and scholars interested in Japan from the eighteenth century to the post-World War II period. Now greatly expanded to include the entire twentieth century, and beginning in 1600, Sources of Japanese Tradition presents writings from modern Japan's most important philosophers, religious figures, writers, and political leaders. The volume also offers extensive introductory essays and commentary to assist in understanding the documents' historical setting and significance. Wonderfully varied in its selections, this eagerly anticipated expanded edition has revised many of the texts from the original edition and added a great many not included or translated before. New additions include documents on the postwar era, the importance of education in the process of modernization, and women's issues.

Beginning with documents from the founding of the Tokugawa shogunate, the collection's essays, manifestos, religious tracts, political documents, and memoirs reflect major Japanese religious, philosophical, social, and political movements. Subjects covered include the spread of neo-Confucian and Buddhist teachings, Japanese poetry and aesthetics, and the Meiji Restoration. Other documents reflect the major political trends and events of the period: the abolition of feudalism, agrarian reform, the emergence of political parties and liberalism, and the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese wars. The collection also includes Western and Japanese impressions of each other via Western religious missions and commercial and cultural exchanges. These selections underscore Japanese and Western apprehension of and fascination with each other.

As Japan entered the twentieth century, new political and social movements-Marxism, anarchism, socialism, feminism, and nationalism-entered the national consciousness. Later readings in the collection look at the buildup to war with the United States, military defeat, and American occupation. Documents from the postwar period echo Japan's struggle with its own history and its development as a capitalist democracy.
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Explanatory Note
  • Chronology
  • Contributors
  • Sources of Japanese Tradition
  • PART IV The Tokugawa Peace
    • 20. IEYASU AND THE FOUNDING OF THE TOKUGAWA SHOGUNATE
      • Code for the Warrior Households
      • Code for the Imperial Court and Court Nobility
      • IEYASU'S REVENGE AND COMPASSION
      • Tales from Mikawa
      • Account of Tokugawa
      • Letter from Honda Masazumi and Konchin Suden to Katagiri Katsumoto
      • Letter from Toyotomi Hideyori to Shimazu Iehisa
      • The Reasons for Ieyasu's Frugality
      • A Story Illustrating Ieyasu's Frugality
      • Letter from Konchin Suden
      • The Story of the Miike Sword
      • The Reign of Emperor Go-Daigo
    • 21. CONFUCIANISM IN THE EARLY TOKUGAWA PERIOD
      • FUJIWARA SWIKA AND THE RISE OF NEO-CONFUCIANISM
      • "The Four Landscapes are Mine"
      • Letter to the Korean Scholar Kang Hang
      • Fujiwara Seika's New/Old Learning
      • Letter to the Head of Annam
      • The Meeting of Minds
      • Teachings of Zhu Xi Brought to Japan
      • Digest of the Great Learning
      • HAYASHI RAZAN
      • On Meeting with Ieyasu
      • The Investigation of Things
      • The Sagely Ideal Versus Practical Compromise
      • Resonses to Questions by Ieyasu
      • "The Three Virtues"
      • THE LATER HISTORY OF THE HAYASHI FAMILY SCHOOL
      • THE WAY OF HEAVEN
      • The Learning of the Mind-and-Heart and the Five Human Relationships
      • Principles of Human Nature, in Vernacular Japanese
      • Kanbun Postface
    • 22. THE SPREAD OF NEO-CONFUCIANISM IN JAPAN
      • YAMAZAKI AND ZHU XI STUDIES
      • Reverence and Rightness (Duty)
      • Lecture Concerning the Chapters on the Divine Age
      • Anecdotes Concerning Yamazaki Ansai
      • Asami Keisai
      • Treatise on the Condept of the Middle Kingdom
      • Sato Naokata
      • Collected Arguments on the Condept of the Middle Kingdom
      • THE MITO SCHOOL
      • Tokugawa Tsunaeda
      • Asaka Tanpaku
      • KAIBARA EKKEN: HUMAN NATURE AND THE STUDY OF NATURE
      • Elementary Learning for Children
      • Record of Great Doubts
      • THE OYOMEI (WANG YANGMING) SCHOOL IN JAPAN
      • Nakae Toju
      • Control of the Mind is True Learning
      • Dialogue with an Old Man
      • The Divine Light in the Mind
      • The Supreme Lord and God of Life
      • KUMUZAWA BANZAN: CONFUCIAN PRACTICE IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY JAPAN
      • The Way and Methods
      • The Categories of Morality
      • The Transmission of the Way to Japan in Early Antiquity
      • Buddhism
      • Deforestation
      • The Relevance of Ritual to Modern Times
      • The Economy
      • Questions on the Great Learning
      • NAKAE TOJU'S SUCCESSORS IN THE OYOMEI SCHOOL
      • Fughi Kozan
      • Miwa Shissai
      • Everyday Methods of the Mind
      • Regarding Wang Yangming's "Four Maxims"
    • 23. THE EVANGELIC FURNACE: JAPAN'S FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH THE WEST
      • EUROPEAN DOCUMENTS
      • A Summary of the Errors in which the Heathen of Japan Live and of some Heathen Sects on which they Principally Rely
      • Alexandro Vilgnano's Japanese Mission Policy
      • Summary of Japanese Matters
      • A Jesuit Priest's Observations of Women
      • JAPANESE DOCUMENTS
      • Notice
      • Decree
      • Letter to the Viceroy of India
      • Statement on the Expulsion of the Bateren
      • Fabian Fucan Pro and Contra
      • The Myotei Dialogue
      • Deus Destroyed
      • A Buddhist Refutation of Christianity
      • Christians Demolished: Tract and Closses
    • 24. CONFUCIAN REVISIONISTS
      • FUNDAMENTALISM AND REVISIONISM IN THE CRITIQUE OF NEO-CONFUCIANISM
      • YAMAGA SOKO AND THE CIVILIZING OF THE SAMURAI
      • Prefact to the Elementary Learning for Samurai
      • The Way of the Samurai
      • Short Preface to the Essential Teachings of the Sages
      • Essential Teachings of the Sages
      • An Autobiography in Exile
      • ITO JINSAI'S SCHOOL OF ANCIENT MEANINGS
      • The Meaning of Terms in the Analects and Meincius
      • The Great Learning was Not by Confucius
      • OGYU SORAI AND THE RETURN TO THE CLASSICS
      • The Confucian Way as a Way of Government
      • Distinguishing Terms
      • Conclusion to Discourses on Government
      • For a Merit System in Government
      • Settlement on the Land
      • Economic Policy
      • MURO KYOSO'S DEFENSE OF NEO-CONFUCIANISM
      • In Defense of Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism
      • Economics and Traditional Values
      • The People Should be as Heaven to the King
    • 25. VARIETIES OF NEO-CONFUCIAN EDUCATION
      • PRINCIPLES OF EDUCATION
      • Yamazaki Ansai
      • Prefact to the Collected Commentaries on Zhu Xi's Regulations of the White Deer Grotto Academy
      • Regulations of the White Deer Grotto Academy
      • Kaibara Ekken
      • Precepts for Daily Life in Japan
      • "The Great Learning for Women"
      • The Shizutani School
      • The Merchant Academy of Kaitokudo
      • Ogyu Sorai's Approach to Learning
      • Learning Principles
      • Hirose Tano's School System
      • Roundabout Words
    • 26. POPULAR INSTRUCTION
      • ISHIDA BAIGAN'S LEARNING OF THE MIND AND THE WAY OF THE MERCHANT
      • City and Country Dialogues
      • THE HOUSE CODES OF TOKUGAWA MERCHANT FAMILIES
      • The Testament of Shimai Soshitsu
      • The Code of the Okaya House
      • IHARA SAIKAKU
      • The Japanese Family Storehouse
      • MITSU TAKAFUSA
      • Some Observations about Merchants
      • MURO KYUSO
      • The General Sense of the Extended Meaning of the Six Precepts
      • HOSOI HEISHU
      • HOW TO BEHAVE AT TEMPLE SCHOOLS
      • Precepts for the Young
    • 27. THE VOCABULARY OF JAPANESE AESTHETICS III
      • CHIKAMATSU MONZAEMON
      • Yosaku from Tanba
    • 28. HAIKU AND THE DEMOCRACY OF POETRY AS A POPULAR ART
      • MATSUO BASHO
      • Kyorai's Conversations with Basho
      • ISSA
    • 29. "DUTCH LEARNING"
      • ENGELBERT KAEMPFER
      • Account of Visits to Edo
      • SUCITA GENPAKU
      • The Beginnings of Dutch Learning
      • OTSUKI CENTAKU
      • Misunderstandings About the Dutch
      • SHIBA KOKAN
    • 30. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY RATIONALISM
      • ARAI HAKUSEKI'S CONFUCIAN PERSPECTIVE ON GOVERNMENT AND SOCIETY
      • The Funtion of Rites
      • The Evolution of Japanese History
      • Views on the Course of History
      • Hakuseki's View of Christianity and the West
      • Tidings of the West
      • Hakuseki's Approach to Fiscal Policy and Trade
      • Musings by a Brushwood Fire
      • TOMINAGA NAKAMOTO'S HISTORICAL RELATIVISM
      • Testaments of an Old Man
      • Discourses After Emerging from Meditation
      • ANDO SHOEKI'S ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITY
      • The Natural Way of True Self-Operation
      • MIURA BAIEN'S SEARCH FOR A NEW LOGIC
      • KAIHO SEIRYO AND THE LAWS OF ECONOMICS
      • The Law of the Universe: Commodities Transactions
    • 31. THE WAY OF THE WARRIOR II
      • THE DEBATE OVER THE AKO VENDETTA
      • Okado Denpachiro
      • RELIGIOUS NUANCES OF THE AKO CASE
      • Hayashi Razan
      • "Loyal Retainers and Righteous Warriors"
      • Hayashi Hoko
      • "On Revenge"
      • Muro Kyuso
      • Prefact to Records of the Righteous Men of Aku Domain
      • Ogyu Sorai
      • "Essay on the Forty-Seven Samurai"
      • Sato Naokata
      • Notes on the Forty-Six Men
      • Asami Keisai
      • "Essay on the Forty-Six Samurai"
      • Dazai Shundai
      • "Essay on the Forty-Six Samurai of Ako Domain"
      • Goi Ranshu
      • Reputation of Dazai Shundai's Essay on the Forty-Six Samurai of Ako Domain
      • Fukuzawa Yukichi
      • An Encouragement of Learning
      • THE AKO VENDETTA DRAMATIZED
      • The Treasury of Loyal Retainers
      • HAGAKURE AND THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI
      • In the Shadow of Leaves
    • 32. THE NATIONAL LEARNING SCHOOLS
      • KADA NO AZUMAMARO
      • Petition for the Establishment of a School of National Learning
      • KAMO NO MABUCHI
      • Inquiry into the Idea of Poetry
      • Inquiry into the Idea of the Nation
      • MOTOORI NORINACA
      • "First Steps Into the Mountains"
      • Love and Poetry
      • Poetry and Mono No Aware
      • Good and Evil in the Tale of Genji
      • HIRATA ATSUTANE
      • On Japanese Learning
      • The Land of the Gods
      • The Greater God
      • Ancient Japanese Ethics
      • The Art of Medicine
      • OKUNI TAKAMASA
      • The New True International Law
    • 33. BUDDHISM IN THE TOKUGAWA PERIOD
      • SUZUKI SHOSAN
      • Right Action for All
      • For the Farmer's Daily Guidance
      • For the Artisan's Daily Guidance
      • For the Daily Guidance of Merchants
      • TAKUAN SOHO
      • Marvelous Power of the Immovable Wisdom
      • BANKEI
      • Opening of the Sermons
      • Precepts
      • HAKUIN EKAKU
      • My Old Tea Kettle
      • JIUN SONJA
      • Sermons on the Precepts and Monastic Life
    • 34. ORTHODOXY, PROTEST, AND LOCAL REFORM
      • THE PROHIBITION OF HETERODOX STUDIES
      • The Justification for the Kansei Edict
      • THE LATER WANG YANGMING (OYOMEI) SCHOOL
      • Sato Issai
      • Attentiveness to One's Intentions
      • Articulating One's Resolve
      • Oshio Heihachiro
      • Oshio's Protest
      • Innate Knowledge and the Spiritual Radiance of the Sun Goddess
      • Notes on "Cleansing the Mind"
      • AGRARIAN REFORM AND COOPERATIVE PLANNING
      • The Repayment of Virtue
      • The Practice of Repayment
      • The Way of Nature
      • The "Pill" of the Three Religions
      • Society for Returning Virtue
    • 35. FORERUNNERS OF THE RESTORATION
      • RAI SANYO AND YAMAGATA DAINI: LOYALISM
      • Unofficial History of Japan
      • Yamagata Daini's New Thesis
      • Master Ryu's New Thesis
      • HONDA TOSHIAKI: AMBITIONS FOR JAPAN
      • A Secret Plan of Government
      • SATO NOBUHIRO: TOTALITARIAN NATIONALISM
      • Preface to the Essence of Economics
      • Questions and Answers Concerning Restoration of the Ancient Order
      • The Population Problem
      • Total Government
      • Essays on Creation and Cultivation
      • Confidential Plan of World Unification
    • 36. THE DEBATE OVER SECLUSION AND RESTORATION
      • THE LATER MITO SCHOOL
      • Aizawa Seishisai: "Revere the Emperor, Repel the Barbarian"
      • "New Thesis"
      • THE OPENING OF JAPAN FROM WITHIN
      • Sakuma Shozan: Eastern Ethics and Western Science
      • Reflections of My Errors
      • Yokoi Shonan: Opening the Country for the Common Good
      • Three Theses on State Policy
      • Yoshida Shoin: Death-Defying Heroism
      • On Leadership
      • On Being Direct
      • Arms and Learning
      • Facing Death
      • Selfishness and Heroism
      • Fukuzawa Yukichi: Pioneer of Westernization
      • The Autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi
      • REFORM PROPOSALS OF SAKAMOTO RYOMA, SAIGO TAKAMORI, AND OKUBO THOSHIMICHI
      • Sakamoto Ryoma: Eight-Point Proposal, 1867
      • Letter from Saigo Takamori and Okuso Toshimichi on the Imperial Restoration, 1867
  • PART V Japan, Asia, and the West
    • 37. THE MEIJI RESTORATION
      • Edict to Subjugate the Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu
      • Letter of Resignation of the Last Shogun
      • Edict to Foreign Diplomats
      • The Charter Oath
      • The Constitution of 1868
      • THE ABOLITION OF FEUDALISM AND THE CENTRALIZATION OF THE MEIJI STATE
      • Memorial on the Propsal to Return the Registers
      • Imperial Rescript on the Abolution of the Han
      • THE LEADERS AND THEIR VISION
      • The Iwakura Mission
      • Kido Takayoshi's Observations of Education in the United States
      • Kido on the Need for Constitutional Government
      • Kume Kunitake's Assessment of European Wealth and Power
      • Kido's Observations on Returning from the West
      • Consequences of the Iwakura Mission: Saigo and Okubo on Korea
      • Letters from Saigo Takamori to Itacaki Taisuke on the Korean Question
      • Okubo Toshimichi's Reasons for Opposing the Korean Expedition
      • The Meiji Emperor
      • Letter from the Meiji Emperor to His People, April 7, 1868
      • Comments from the Imperial Progress of 1878
      • A Glimpse of the Meiji Emperor in 1872 by Takashima Tomonosuke
      • Charles Lanman's Descriptions of the Meiji Emperor in 1882
      • The Meiji Emperor's Conversation with HIjikata Hisamoto on the Outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War
      • A Poem by the Meiji Emperor on the Eve of the Russo-Japanese War
    • 38. CIVILIZATION AND ENLIGHTENMENT
      • FUKUZAWA YUKICHI
      • Fukuzawa Yukichi's View of Civilization
      • An Encouragement of Learning
      • ENLIGHTENMENT THINKERS OF THE MEIROKUSHA: ON MARRIAGE
      • Mori Arinori
      • On Wives and Concubines
      • Kato Hiroyuki
      • Abuses of Equal Rights for Men and Women
      • Fukuzawa Yukichi
      • The Equal Numbers of Men and Women
      • Sakatani Shiroshi
      • On Concubines
      • Tsuda Mamichi
      • Distinguishing the Equal Rights of Husbands and Wives
      • NAKAMURA MASANAO: CHINA SHOULD NOT BE DESPISED
      • Japan's Debt to China
    • 39. POPULAR RIGHTS AND CONSTITUTIONALISM
      • DEBATING A NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
      • Itagaki Taisuke
      • Memorial on the Establishment of a Representative Assembly
      • Nakamura Masanao
      • On Changing the Character of the People
      • REPRESENTATIVE ASSEMBLIES AND NATIONAL PROGRESS, FEBRUARY 1879
      • Editorial from Choya Shinbun
      • DEFINING THE CONSTITUTIONAL STATE
      • Ito Hirobumi
      • Memorial on Constitutional Government, December 1880
      • Okuma Shigenobu
      • Chiba Takasaburo
      • Nakae Chomin
      • THE EMERGENCE OF POLITICAL PARTIES
      • Itagaki Taisuke
      • "On LIberty"
      • Fukuchi Gen'Ichiro
      • Okuma Shigenobu
      • Ozaki Yukio
      • BESTOWING THE CONSTITUTION ON THE PEOPLE
      • Ito Hirobumi
      • CONTROLLING THE FREEDOM AND PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MOVEMENT
      • Fukuda Hideko
      • Newspaper Accounts of Arrests Under the Peace Preservation Law
      • THE MEIJI CONSTITUTION
      • The Constitution of the Empire of Japan
      • Ubukata Thoshiro
    • 40. EDUCATION IN MEIJI JAPAN
      • VIEWS IN THE EARLY MEIJI PERIOD
      • "Admonitions to Court Nobles"
      • "Further Admonitions"
      • Kido Takayoshi and Ito Hiobumi on Universal Education
      • Kido Takayoshi: Draft Memorial for the Immediate Promotion of Universal Education
      • Ito Hirobumi: "Principles of National Policy"
      • Fukuzawa Yukichi and Education
      • An Encouragement of Learning
      • THE FIRST MEIJI SCHOOL SYSTEM
      • Preamble (Oseidasaresho) to the Fundamental Code of Education
      • THE CONFUCIAN CRITIQUE
      • Motoda Eifu and Emperor-Centered Education
      • Great Principles of Education
      • Tani Tateki's Critique of teh West
      • Opinion on Reform of Army Pension Law
      • Nakamura Masanao's Synthesis of East and West
      • "Past-Present, East-West, One Morality"
      • Mori Arinori and the Later Meiji School System
      • "Essentials of Educational Administration"
      • Military-Style Physical Training
      • Inoue Kowashi and Patriotic Training
      • Public Education and the National Substance
      • "Plan to Defend the National Interest"
      • THE IMPERIAL RESCRIPT ON EDUCATION
      • The Opening
      • The Extended Meaning of the Rescript
      • TEACHERS AND REFORM FROM BELOW
      • "Reducing Interference in Textbook Selections"
      • STATE CONTROL OVER TEXTBOOKS
      • Japanese Education
      • THE EDUCATION OF WOMEN IN THE MEIJI PERIOD
      • Progress of Female Education in Meiji
    • 41. NATIONALISM AND PAN-ASIANISM
      • STATE SHINTO
      • The Unity of Rites and Rule
      • The Idea of Shinto as a National Teaching
      • Memorial
      • The Divinity of the Emperor
      • The Patriotic Meaning of Shrines
      • "A Policy for the Unification of the National Faith"
      • State Shinto in the Colonies of Imperial Japan
      • On the Refusal to Worship at Shrines
      • The Emperor's Reunification of His Divinity
      • TOKUTOMI SOHO: A JAPANESE NATIONALIST'S VIEW OF THE WEST AND ASIA
      • The Early Meiji Vision
      • On Wealth and Power
      • Youth and Revolution
      • On Economic Versus Military Power
      • Advocate of Freedom and People's Rights
      • Nationalism
      • Supporting the Imperial State and Military Expansion
      • Rejoicing Over Victory in the Sino-Japanese War
      • Resentment Resulting from the Triple Intervention
      • Support for the Imperial State, Criticism of the Taisho Society
      • Worship of the Imperial House
      • Rejecting the Sest and Withdrawing from the League of Nations
      • Justification for the China War
      • American-Japanese Relations in 1941
      • Comments on the Imperial Rescript for War with Great Britain and the United States
      • Analyzing Defeat
      • Final Assessment
      • OKAKURA KAKUZO: AESTHETIC PAN-ASIANISM
      • The Ideals of the East
      • Tea, the Cup of Humanity
      • YANAGI MUNEYOSHI AND THE KWANGHWA GATE IN SEOUL, KOREA
      • For a Korean Architecture About to be Lost
    • 42. THE HIGH TIDE OF PREWAR LIBERALISM
      • DEMOCRACY AT HOME
      • Lectures on the Constitution
      • Yoshino Sakuzo: Democracy as Minpon Shugi
      • "On the Meaning of Constitutional Government and the Methods by Which it Can Be Perfected"
      • Kawai Eijiro: A Rebuke to the Military
      • Critique of the February 26 Incident
      • Ishibashi Tanzan: A Liberal Business Journalist
      • "The Fantasy of Greater Japanism"
      • "Before Demanding the Abolution of Racial Discrimination"
      • "The Only Method for Proper Guidance of Thought is to Allow Absolute Freedom of Speech"
      • Kiyosawa Kiyoshi: Why Liberalism?
      • Present-Day Japan
      • Why Liberalism?
      • Ienaga Saburo: The Formation of a Liberal
      • A Historian's Progress, Step by Step
      • PEACEFUL COOPERATION ABROAD
      • A Rapprochement with China
      • Yamamuro Sobun: Call for a Peaceful Japan
    • 43. SOCIALISM AND THE LEFT
      • THE EARLY SOCIALIST MOVEMENT
      • Katayama Sen
      • ANARCHISM
      • Kotoku Shusui
      • "The Change in My Thought" (On Universal Suffrage)
      • SOCIALISM AND THE LEFT
      • Autobiography
      • Kaneko Fumiko
      • "What Made Me Do What I DId"
      • MARXISM
      • The Debate About Japanese Capitalism
      • Kawakami Hajime
      • A Letter from Prison
      • Concerning Marxism
      • Yamada Moritaro
      • Analysis of Japanese Capitalism
      • Uno Kozo
      • The Essence of Capital
      • MARXIST CULTURAL CRITICISM
      • Tosaka Jun
      • The Japanese Ideology
      • Nakano Shigeharu
      • THE TENKO PHENOMENON
      • Letter to Our Fellow Defendants
    • 44. THE RISE OF REVOLUTIONARY NATIONALISM
      • JAPAN AND ASIA
      • An Anniversary Statement by the Amur Society
      • AGITATION BY ASSASSINATION
      • Asahi Heigo
      • Call for a New "Restoration"
      • THE PLIGHT OF THE COUNTRYSIDE
      • Gondo Seikyo
      • The Gap Between the Priveleged Classes and the Commoners
      • KITA IKKI AND THE REFORM WING OF ULTRANATIONALISM
      • An Outline Plan for the Reorganization of Japan
      • THE CONSERVATIVE REAFFIRMATION
      • Fundamentals of Our National Polity
      • WATSUJI TETSURO
      • The Way of the Japanese Subject
    • 45. EMPIRE AND WAR
      • THE IMPACT OF WORLD WAR 1: A CONFLICT BETWEEN DEFENDERS AND OPPONENTS OF THE STATUS QUO
      • "Against a Pacifism Centered on England and America"
      • A PLAN TO OCCUPY MANCHURIA
      • Personal Opinion on the Manchuria-Mongolia Problem
      • THE ECONOMIC NEED FOR EXPANSION
      • Hashimoto Kingoro
      • Addresses to Young Men
      • Konoe Fumimaro
      • Radio Address
      • NATIONAL MOBILIZATION
      • On the Basic Meaning of National Defense and Its Intensification
      • Konoe Fumimaro
      • Concerning the New National Structure
      • The Imperial Rule Assistance Association
      • Confronting the Crisis
      • SPIRITUAL MOBILIZATION
      • Ministry of Education
      • The Way of Subjects
      • ECONOMIC MOBILIZATION
      • Japan's Economic Reorganization
      • THE GREATER EAST ASIA WAR
      • The Greater Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
      • THE DECISION FOR WAR WITH THE UNITED STATES
      • Statement by Prime Minister Tojo Hideki
      • Statement by Foreign Minister Togo Shigenori on Japanese-American Negotiations
      • Statement by Privy Council President Hara Yoshimichi
      • Concluding Remarks by Prime Minister Tojo Hideki
      • The War's Goals
      • Draft of Basic Plan for Establishment of Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
      • The Greater East Asia Conference
      • Defeat
      • Imperial Rescript on Surrender
  • PART VI Postwar Japan
    • 46. THE OCCUPATION YEARS, 1945-1952
      • INITIAL OFFICIAL POLICIES, AMERICAN AND JAPANESE
      • General MacArthur's Statement to the Japanese Government
      • Revised Report to the Diet and People by the Shidehara Cabinet
      • THE NEW BASIC DOCUMENT: THE 1947 CONSTITUTION
      • The New Constitution
      • INTRODUCING A NEW CIVIL CODE
      • The Revised Civil Code
      • The Revised Family Registration Law
      • Article 6
      • THE NEW EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
      • The School Education Act
      • The Fundamental Law of Education
      • LABOR UNIONS
      • The Labor Standards Law
      • RURAL LAND REFORM
      • Rural Land Reform Directive
      • Views of Yoshida Shiceru
      • ECONOMIC STABILIZATION AND RECONSTRUCTION
      • Postwar Reconstruction of the Japanese Economy
      • Japan's First White Paper on the Economy
      • Revised U.S. Policy for Occupied Japan
      • RECONSTRUCTING JAPAN AS A NATION OF PEACE AND CULTURE
      • Morito Tatsuo
      • "The Construction of a Peaceful Nation"
      • Yokota Kisaburo
      • On Peace
      • REGAINING SOVEREIGNTY IN A BIPOLAR WORLD
      • Negotiating a Formal Peace Settlement
      • Treaty of Peace Between the Allied Powers and Japan
      • Bilateral Security Treaty Between the United States of America and Japan
      • SOME JAPANESE VIEWS OF THE WAR
      • Kurihara Sadako
      • Oe Kenzaburo
      • Growing Up During the Occupation
      • Tanaka Kotaro
      • In Search of Truth and Peace
    • 47. DEMOCRACY AND HIGH GROWTH
      • THE MOVEMENT AGAINST THE SEPARATE TREATY AND TEH U.S.-JAPAN MILITARY ALLIANCE
      • Declaration of the Peace Problems Discussion Group on Questions Surrounding an Agreement on Peace
      • Nakasone Yasuhiro: A Critical View of the Postwar Constitution
      • The "MacArthur" Constitution
      • THE GOVERNMENT'S VIEW OF THE ECONOMY IN 1956: "THE POSTWAR" IS OVER
      • Declaration of the Director of the Economic Planning Agency on the Occasion of the Publication of the White Paper on the Economy
      • THE TRANSFORMATION FO THE POSTWAR MONARCHY
      • The Emperor System of the Masses
      • TWO VIEWS OF THE SECURITY TREATY CRISIS OF 1960
      • Maruyama Masao
      • Yoshimoto Takaaki
      • THE CONSUMER REVOLUTION IN POSTWAR JAPAN
      • The Economic Planning Agency's White Paper on the People's Livelihood
      • THE ECONOMIC PLANNING AGENCY'S NEW LONG-RANGE ECONOMIC PLAN OF JAPAN
      • The Income-Doubling Plan
      • ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM IN POSTWAR JAPAN: MINAMATA DISEASE
      • We Citizens: Sit-In Strike Declaration
      • BULLDOZING THE ARCHIPELAGO: THE POLITICS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH
      • Epilogue of Building a New Japan
      • THE PHILOSOPHY OF JAPANESE LABOR MANAGEMENT IN THE HIGH-GROWTH ERA
      • Twenty Years of Labor Management
      • THE JAPANESE MIDDLE CLASS AT THE END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
      • "Farewell, Mainstream Consciousness!"
  • PART VII Aspects of the Modern Experience
  • 48. THE NEW RELIGIONS
    • KUROZUMIKYO¯
    • Sacred Texts
    • TENRIKYO¯
    • OMOTO
    • Deguchi Nao
    • Deguchi Onisaburo
    • Divine Signposts
    • REIYU¯ KAIKYODAN
    • Kubo Kakutaro: Sermon
    • The Blue Sutra
    • Kotani Kimi: The MIssion of Reiyukai
    • SOKA GAKKAI
    • Makiguchi Tsunesaburo
    • What is Religious Value?
    • The Relations Among Religion and Science, Morality, and Education
    • Toda JOsei
    • Ikeda Daisaku
  • 49. JAPAN AND THE WORLD IN CULTURAL DEBATE
    • UCHIMURA KANZO¯
    • How I Became a Christian
    • The Disrespect Incident
    • NATSUME SOSEKI
    • "My Individualism"
    • NISHIDA KITARO¯
    • The Problem of Japanese Culture
    • ENDO¯ SHU¯ SAKU
    • "My Coming into Faith"
    • "The National Characteristics of Japanese Culture"
    • MISHIMA YUKIO
    • OE KENZABURO
    • "Japan, the Ambiguous, and Myself"
  • 50. GENDER POLITICS AND FEMINISM
    • GENDER AND MODERNIZATION
    • Magazines for Women's Education
    • Shimizu Toyoko: "The Broken Ring"
    • Women and Labour
    • Yamakawa Kikue: Record of the Generation of Women
    • Hiratsuka Raicho and the Bluestocking Society
    • POSTWAR JAPANESE FEMINISM
    • Aoki Yayoi and Ecofeminism
    • Imperialist Sentiments and teh Privilege of Aggression
    • Matsui Yayori and Asian Migrant Women in Japan
    • The Victimization of Asian Migrant Women in Japan
    • Ueno Chizuko and the Cultural Context of Japanese Feminism
    • Are the Japanese Feminine? Some Problems of Japanese Feminism in its Cultural Context
    • Saito Chiyo and Japanese Feminism
    • What is Japanese Feminism?
  • 51. THINKING WITH THE PAST: HISTORY WRITING IN MODERN JAPAN
    • NEW HISTORIES IN MEIJI JAPAN
    • Taguchi Ukichi
    • A Short HIstory of Japanese Civilization
    • Shigeno Yasutsugu
    • "Those Who Engage in the Study of History Must Be Impartial and Fair-Minded in Spirit"
    • Kume Kunitake
    • "The Abuses of Textual Criticism in HIstorical Study"
    • MARXIST HISTORY WRITING
    • Lectures on the History of the Development of Japanese Capitalism
    • The Association of Historical Studies
    • WRITING ABOUT THE MEIJI RESTORATION
    • Future Japan
    • Tokutomi Soho
    • Noro Eitaro
    • History of the Development of Japanese Capitalism
    • "The Meaning of the Meiji Restoration Today"
    • Nakamura Masanori
    • Banno Junji
    • "Meiji Japan's Nation-Building Process"
    • Bito Masahide
    • What is the Edo Period?
    • Shiba Ryotaro
    • A HIgh-School History Textbook
    • ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES
    • Ifa Fuyu
    • Old Ryukyu
    • Yanagita Kunio
    • Takamure Itsue
    • History of Women
    • So-Called Commoner Culture: Commoner Culture and Women
    • JAPANESE HISTORY IN COMPARISON
    • Maruyama Masao
    • "The Structure of Matsuricoto: the Basso Ostinato of Japanese Political Life"
    • Irokawa Daikichi
    • The Culture of the Meiji Period
    • Yasumaru Yoshio
    • "National Religion, the Imperial Institution and Invented Tradition: the Western Stimulus"
    • THE ASIA-PACIFIC WAR IN HISTORY AND MEMORY
    • Maruyama Masao
    • "The Logic and Psychology of Ultranationalism"
    • Ienaga Saburo
    • The Pacific War
    • The Ienaga Textbook Trials
    • Hiroshima Notes
    • Fujiwara Akira
    • How to View the Nanjing Incident
    • Kobayashi Yoshinori
    • Ishizaka Kei
    • Twentieth-Century Design Stamps
    • RETHINKING THE NATION
    • Amino Yoshihiko
    • "Deconstructing Japan"
    • Kano Masnao
    • Is "Tori-Shima" Included?
    • Arano Yasunori and Colleagues
    • The HIstory of Japan in Asia
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Other Works in the Columbia Asian Studies Series

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