Transformation of Japan

As nature has enabled Japan to be the first country to bask in the crimson rays of the rising Sun, her socio-political history has also show unique features. She had undergone a transformation from a backward feudal state to a capitalist state and then to an imperialist country. The text is not a mere chronology of facts, but critical analysis done in a simple language and lucid style.

This text book is the first of its kind written in English by any Indian author. Though it is written with an eye to the syllabi of Indian universities, the lucid style of writing is sure to attract the general readers also. The English renderings of the Japanese words and the map of Japan have made the book more useful to the students in general.

Contents
Chapter-1
Ancient and Medieval Japan;
Chapter-2
Feudal Japan-Tokugawa Japan
Chapter-3
Peasant revolts in Feudal Japan:
Chapter-4.
Chapter-5
Western aggression and the ‘Opening of Japan’:
Chapter-6
Meiji Restoration of 1868 and its Nature.
Chapter-7
End of the Feudal era, Development of Capitalism and Modernization: Transformation of Agriculture and Industry-Abolition of daimiyo and samurai class, Development of capitalism-Social origin of the entrepreneurs.
Chapter-8
New Constitution of 1889-90
Chapter -9
Rise of Japanese militarism-From the Sino-Japanese War(1894-95) to the “Twenty-one Demands”(1915):.
Chapter-10
Japan establishes herself as an imperialist power (1915-31):
Chapter 11:
Urban life: the Middle and the Working class.
Chapter 12:
From Manchuria to Pearl Harbour(1931-41): Chapter 13:
War in the Pacific Ocean: From Pearl Harbour to Nagasaki(1941-45):
Glossary of Japanese Terms
Bibliography