Introduction / William M. Tsutsui --
pt. 1. Japan before 1600 --
1. Japanese beginnings / Mark J. Hudson --
2. The Heian period / G. Cameron Hurst III --
3. Medieval Japan / Andrew Edmund Goble --
pt. 2. Early modern Japan --
4. Unification, consolidation, and Tokugawa rule / Philip C. Brown --
5. Social and economic change in Tokugawa Japan / Edward E. Pratt --
6. Intellectual change in Tokugawa Japan / Peter Nosco --
7. Cultural developments in Tokugawa Japan / Lawrence E. Marceau --
pt. 3. Modern Japan : from the Meiji restoration through World War II --
8. Restoration and revolution / James L. Huffman --
9. Oligarchy, democracy, and fascism / Stephen S. Large --
10. Social and economic change in prewar Japan / Mark Jones and Steven Ericson --
11. Intellectual life, culture, and the challenge of modernity / Elise K. Tipton --
12. External relations / Frederick R. Dickinson --
13. The Japanese empire / Y. Tak Matsusaka --
14. The fifteen-year war / W. Miles Fletcher III.
pt. 4. Japan since 1945 --
15. The occupation / Mark Metzler --
16. Postwar politics / Ray Christensen --
17. The postwar Japanese economy / Bai Gao --
18. Postwar society and culture / Wesley Sasaki-Uemura --
19. Japan in the world / Glenn D. Hook --
pt. 5. Themes in Japanese history --
20. Women and sexuality in premodern Japan / Hitomi Tonomura --
21. Gender and sexuality in modern Japan / Sally A. Hastings --
22. Class and social stratification / Ian Neary --
23. Japan in Asia / Leo Ching --
24. Center and periphery in Japanese historical studies / Michael Lewis --
25. Modernity, water, and the environment in Japan / Gavan McCormack --
26. Popular culture / E. Taylor Atkins --
27. Rural Japan and agriculture / Eric C. Rath --
28. Business and labor / Charles Weathers --
29. Authority and the individual / J. Victor Koschmann --
30. National identity and nationalism / Kevin M. Doak --
Consolidated bibliography --