This volume focuses on Japan over the last one hundred years, with special emphasis on the twentieth century and the contemporary period. Chapters on cultural, intellectual and economic history, domestic politics and foreign relations trace the complex and multi-faceted process through which Japan has been transformed from an isolated agricultural society to an economic world power and model for the other developing nations. The authors demonstrate the adaptibility of Japan's native tradition in its encounter with the world beyond its own shores, and show how many aspects of traditional Japanese culture and society have been transformed while others have survived, giving contemporary Japan that distinctive flavour of an old insular culture which continues to delight and baffle foreign and native scholars alike.

Zusammenfassung
This volume focuses on Japan over the last one hundred years. Chapters on cultural, intellectual and economic history, domestic politics and foreign relations trace the process through which Japan has been transformed from an isolated agricultural society to an economic world power and model for the other developing nations.

Inhalt
Takeshi Ishida; Frontispiece - Notes on the Contributors - Notes on Names and Citations - Preface - Introduction; G.L.Bernstein & H.Fukui - PART 1 WAYS OF SEEING THE WORLD - World Without Walls: Panoramic Vision in Late Tokugawa Japan; H.D.Smith II - Anglo-American Influences on Nishida Kitaro; A.Hirai - PART_2 DEVELOPMENT, AUTHORITY AND CONFORMITY - A Non-traditional View of Japanese Modernisation; E.F.Vogel - Women in the Silk Reeling Industry in Nineteenth-Century Japan; G.L.Bernstein - Tenko and Thought Control; P.G.Steinhoff - The 1960s Student Movement in Retrospect; E.S.Kraus - PART_3 POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND PRACTICES - Electoral Laws and the Japanese Party System; H.Fukui - The Institutionalisation of Policy Consultation in Japan; E.Harari - Japanese Politics: Good or Bad?; J.A.A.Stockwin - The Impact of Domestic Politics on Japan's Foreign Policy; F.Quei_Quo - PART_4 JAPAN'S IMPACT ON THE WORLD - Japanese Policy-Making on Issues of North-South Relations; S.N.Fukai - The Japanese Management System in Europe; S.J.Park - Japan as a Model for Economic Development, The Example of Singapore; T.A.Stanley - Conclusion; G.L.Bernstein & H.Fukui - Index