Contents

• Copyright Notice
• History of This Document
• Contents
• Introduction
  • Setting the Stage: Geography
• The Earliest Times
  • Pre-History
• The Nara and Heian Periods
  • The Nara and Heian Periods
• The Rise of the Samurai
• The Kamakura Period
  • The Kamakura Period
• The Warring States Period
  • The Nutshell Version
  • The Warring States Period
  • Alliances
  • The Europeans
  • The Unification of the Country
• Cultural Influences
• The Tokugawa Period
  • The Tokugawa (Edo) Period in a Nutshell
  • Prelude: The Unification of Japan
  • Tokugawa Ieyasu and his Bakufu
  • Interlude: Bushido
  • Ieyasu's grandson Iemitsu
  • Interlude: Old Books, National Learning and other -isms
  • My Koku is Bigger than Your Koku
  • Interlude: No Women on the Stage
  • Introverts, Extroverts and Black Ships
  • The End of "Feudal" Japan
• The Meiji Restoration
• Intellectual Influences
  • Shinto
  • Buddhism
  • Confucianism
• The Meiji Period, Part 2
• The Taisho Period
• The Early Showa Period
• World War 2
  • The Pacific, December of 1941
• The Occupation of Japan
• Recent Event in Japan
• Recent Event in Japan
• GNU Free Documentation License
  • PREAMBLE
  • APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
  • VERBATIM COPYING
  • COPYING IN QUANTITY
  • MODIFICATIONS
  • COMBINING DOCUMENTS
  • COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
  • AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
  • TRANSLATION
  • TERMINATION
  • FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
  • How to use this License for your documents
• Index