Introduction / William M. Tsutsui
Japanese beginnings / Mark J. Hudson
The Heian period / G. Cameron Hurst III
Medieval Japan / Andrew Goble
pt II: Early modern Japan
Unification, consolidation, and Tokugawa rule / Philip C. Brown / Social and economic change in Tokugawa Japan / Edward E. Pratt
Intellectual change in Tokugawa Japan / Peter Nosco
Cultural developments in Tokugawa Japan / Lawrence E. Marceau
pt III: Modern Japan, from Meiji restoration through World War II
Restoration and revolution / James L. Huffman
Oligarchy, democracy, and Fascism / Stephen S. Large
Social and economic change in prewar Japan / Mark Jones and Steven Ericson
Intellectual life, culture, and the challenge of modernity / Elise K. Tipton
External relations / Frederick R. Dickinson / The Japanese empire / Y. Tak Matsusaka
The Fifteen-Year war / W. Miles Fletcher III
The Occupation / Mark Metzler
Postwar politics / Ray Christensen
The postwar Japanese economy / Bai Gao
Postwar society and culture / Wesley Sasaki-Uemura
Japan in the world / Glenn D. Hook
pt. V: Themes in Japanese history
Women and sexuality in premodern Japan / Hitomi Tonomura
Gender and sexuality in modern Japan / Sally Hastings
Class and social stratification / Ian Neary
Japan in Asia / Leo Ching
Center and periphery in Japanese historical studies / Michael Lewis
Modernity, water, and the environment in Japan / Gavan McCormack
Popular culture / E. Taylor Atkins
Rural Japan and agriculture / Eric C. Rath
Business and labor / Charles Weathers
Authority and the individual / J. Victor Koschmann
National identity and nationalism / Kevin M. Doak.
