History of Modern Japan

Catalog description

Examines the history of modern Japan from the age of the samurai in the Tokugawa Shogunate to today’s high-tech mass consumer society. It traces the interaction of elements of Japan’s traditional culture with impacts from the outside to create a uniquely-Japanese modernity. It stresses social, economic, and cultural trends, as well as political history, and includes an examination of modern Japanese culture through fiction and film.