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Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
March 2015
Print publication year:
2015
Online ISBN:
9780511783043

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To this day, Japan's modern ascendancy challenges many assumptions about world history, particularly theories regarding the rise of the west and why the modern world looks the way it does. In this engaging new history, Brett L. Walker tackles key themes regarding Japan's relationships with its minorities, state and economic development, and the uses of science and medicine. The book begins by tracing the country's early history through archaeological remains, before proceeding to explore life in the imperial court, the rise of the samurai, civil conflict, encounters with Europe, and the advent of modernity and empire. Integrating the pageantry of a unique nation's history with today's environmental concerns, Walker's vibrant and accessible new narrative then follows Japan's ascension from the ashes of World War II into the thriving nation of today. It is a history for our times, posing important questions regarding how we should situate a nation's history in an age of environmental and climatological uncertainties.

Awards

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2015

Reviews

'This is the best short survey of Japanese history available today: timely in its focus on environmental issues but timeless in its sound scholarship, rich in detail but thoroughly readable and eloquent in its interpretation of Japan’s complex past.'

William M. Tsutsui - Hendrix College, Washington

'This is a textbook for our times from one of the leading scholars in the field. From humanity’s deep history in the archipelago to the massive crisis of March 2011, Walker’s history recasts the central themes of the Japanese past. Samurai scientists, wartime zealots, and the nation’s vibrant post-war popular culture are placed in global context and enlivened through clear prose. Each chapter is concise, accessible and rooted in the latest scholarship. I can think of no finer text that covers the full range of Japan’s past.'

Ian Jared Miller - Harvard University, Massachusetts

'In crisp, clear prose, Brett Walker's A Concise History of Japan provides a sweeping view of Japan's past distinctively framed by world history and, most crucially, by environmental challenges.'

Julia Adeney Thomas - University of Notre Dame, Indiana

'Brett Walker’s A Concise History of Japan is a new national survey geared to the global Anthropocene. Alert to the many forces that threaten our planet’s future, the author - a leading environmental historian in his own right - takes a critical look at the long sweep of the Japanese past. The result is a fast-paced account of the archipelago’s development and its discontents, at once brisk and brooding.'

Kären Wigen - Stanford University, California

'A lucid exploration of the way that the peoples of the Japanese archipelago have shaped and been shaped by their environment, from the extinction of big game to the grave disaster and diseases that accompanied industrialization every step of the way.'

Morgan Giles Source: The Times Literary Supplement

‘Walker’s new history of Japan reflects a deep appreciation of the issues of concern to today's readers. This is a history of Japan unlike anything published so far in the attention given to the impact of disease, famine, deforestation, climate change, environmental pollution, and natural disasters on the story of the Japanese and their relationship with their country. In a clear, readable style, the author expertly narrates the course of Japanese history, reflecting the most recent scholarship available. Along the way, he discusses topics not included in previous histories of Japan, such as the introduction and impact of both disease and medical knowledge in the premodern era, the rise of the Japanese fishing 'pelagic empire' in the twentieth century, and the global impact of Japan's 'soft culture' in recent decades … Summing up: essential.’

M. D. Ericson Source: Choice

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Contents

Further Reading
Introduction: Writing Japanese History
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Barbier, Edward B., Scarcity and Frontiers: How Economies Have Developed through Natural Resource Exploitation (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
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The Birth of the Yamato State, 14,500 bce – 710 ce
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Kidder, Jr. J. Edward, Himiko and Japan’s Elusive Chiefdom of Yamatai: Archaeology, History, and Mythology (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2007)
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Piggott, Joan R., The Emergence of Japanese Kingship (Stanford University Press, 1997)
Walker, Brett L., The Lost Wolves of Japan, foreword by Cronon, William (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005).
The Courtly Age, 710–1185
Borgen, Robert, Sugawara no Michizane and the Early Heian Court (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1986)
The Diary of Lady Murasaki, trans. Richard Bowring (New York: Penguin Books, 1996)
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Morris, Ivan, The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan, intro. Ruch, Barbara (New York and Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1964)
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Shirane, Haruo, ed., Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007)
Walker, Brett L., The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion, 1590–1800 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001)
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The Rise of Samurai Rule, 1185–1336
Farris, William Wayne, Heavenly Warriors: The Evolution of Japan’s Military, 500–1300 (Cambridge, MA: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1995)
Farris, William Wayne, Japan to 1600: A Social and Economic History (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2009)
Farris, William Wayne, Population, Disease, and Land in Early Japan, 645–900 (Cambridge, MA: Council on East Asian Studies and Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 24, Harvard University, 1985)
Friday, Karl F., Hired Swords: The Rise of Private Warrior Power in Early Japan (Stanford University Press, 1992)
Goble, Andrew, Kenmu: Go-Daigo’s Revolution (Cambridge, MA: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1996)
Ikegami, Eiko, The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995)
In Little Need of Divine Intervention: Takezaki Suenaga’s Scrolls of the Mongol Invasions of Japan, trans. and interpretative essay by Thomas D. Conlan (Ithaca: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2001)
François Souyri, Pierre, The World Turned Upside Down: Medieval Japanese Society, trans. Roth, Käthe (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001)
The Ten Foot Square Hut and Tales of the Heike, trans. A. L. Sadler (Rutland, VT & Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1972)
Varley, Paul, Warriors of Japan, As Portrayed in the War Tales (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1994).
Medieval Japan and the Warring States Period, 1336–1573
Berry, Mary Elizabeth, The Culture of Civil War in Kyoto (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994)
Conlan, Thomas Donald, State of War: The Violent Order of Fourteenth-Century Japan (Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2003)
Goble, Andrew Edmund, Confluences of Medicine in Medieval Japan: Buddhist Healing, Chinese Knowledge, Islamic Formulas, and Wounds of War (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2011)
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Souyri, Pierre François, The World Turned Upside Down: Medieval Japanese Society, trans. Roth, Käthe (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001)
Totman, Conrad, The Green Archipelago: Forestry in Pre-Industrial Japan, foreword by Webb, Jr. James L. A. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989; reprint, Athens: Ohio University Press, 1998)
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Japan’s Encounter with Europe, 1543–1640
Michael Cooper, S.J., comp., They Came to Japan (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1965)
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Richards, John F., The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003)
Screech, Timon, The Lens Within the Heart: The Western Scientific Gaze and Popular Imagery in Later Edo Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2002)
Smits, Gregory, Visions of Ryukyu: Identity and Ideology in Early-Modern Thought and Politics (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1999)
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Unifying the Realm, 1560–1603
Berry, Mary Elizabeth, Hideyoshi (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982)
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Lamers, Jeroen, Japonius Tyrannus: The Japanese Warlord Oda Nobunaga Reconsidered (Leiden: Hôtei Publishing, 2000)
Totman, Conrad, Early Modern Japan (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993)
Totman, Conrad, The Green Archipelago: Forestry in Pre-Industrial Japan, foreword by Webb, Jr. James L. A. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989; reprint, Athens: Ohio University Press, 1998).
Early Modern Japan, 1600–1800
Berry, Mary Elizabeth, Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006)
Bashô, Matsuo, The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches, trans. Yuasa, Nobuyuki (New York: Penguin Books, 1966)
Hanley, Susan, Everyday Things in Premodern Japan: The Hidden Legacy of Material Culture (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997)
Howell, David L., Capitalism from Within: Economy, Society, and the State in a Japanese Fishery (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995)
Howell, David L., Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2005)
Ikegami, Eiko, Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
Najita, Tetsuo, ed., Tokugawa Political Writings (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
Najita, Tetsuo, Visions of Virtue in Tokugawa Japan: The Kaitokudô Merchant Academy of Osaka (University of Chicago Press, 1987)
Ooms, Herman, Tokugawa Ideology: Early Constructs, 1570–1680 (Princeton University Press, 1985)
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Smith, Thomas C., The Agrarian Origins of Modern Japan (Stanford University Press, 1959)
Smith, Thomas C., Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization, 1750–1920 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1988)
Totman, Conrad, Early Modern Japan (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993)
Walker, Brett L., The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion, 1590–1800 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001)
Walker, Brett L., ‘Mamiya Rinzô and the Japanese Exploration of Sakhalin Island: Cartography, Ethnography, and Empire’, Journal of Historical Geography 33.2 (April 2007)
Yonemoto, Marcia, Mapping Early Modern Japan: Space, Place, and Culture in the Tokugawa Period (1603–1868) (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003).
The Rise of Imperial Nationalism, 1770–1854
Burns, Susan L., Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2003)
Harootunian, H. D., Things Seen and Unseen: Discourse and Ideology in Tokugawa Nativism (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1988)
Harootunian, H. D., Toward Restoration: The Growth of Political Consciousness in Tokugawa Japan (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1970)
Keene, Donald, The Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720–1830 (Stanford University Press, 1952)
Koschmann, J. Victor, The Mito Ideology: Discourse, Reform, and Insurrection in Late Tokugawa Japan, 1790–1864 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1987)
Najita, Tetsuo, Japan: The Intellectual Foundations of Modern Japanese Politics (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1974)
Tonomura, Hitomi, Walthall, Anne, and Haruko, Wakita, eds., Women and Class in Japanese History (Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1999)
Totman, Conrad, The Collapse of the Tokugawa Bakufu, 1862–1868 (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1980)
Vlastos, Stephen, Peasant Protests and Uprisings in Tokugawa Japan (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1986)
Wakabayashi, Bob Tadashi, Anti-Foreignism and Western Learning in Early Modern Japan: The ‘New Theses’ of 1825 (Cambridge, MA: Council on Easy Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1991)
Walthall, Anne, ed. and trans., Peasant Uprisings in Japan (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1991)
Walthall, Anne, The Weak Body of a Useless Woman: Matsuo Taseko and the Meiji Restoration (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1998)
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Meiji Enlightenment, 1868–1912
The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa, trans. Eiichi Kiyooka (New York: Columbia University Press, 1960)
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Craig, Albert M., Civilization and Enlightenment: The Early Thought of Fukuzawa Yukichi (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009)
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Gluck, Carol, Japan’s Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period (Princeton University Press, 1985)
Hanes, Jeffrey E., The City as Subject: Seki Hajime and the Reinvention of Modern Osaka (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002)
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Howland, Douglas R., Translating the West: Language and Political Reason in Nineteenth-Century Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2002)
Jansen, Marius B., Sakamoto Ryôma and the Meiji Restoration (New York: Columbia University Press, 1961)
Jansen, Marius B. and Rozman, Gilbert, eds., Japan in Transition: From Tokugawa to Meiji (Princeton University Press, 1986)
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Sievers, Sharon L., Flowers in Salt: The Beginnings of Feminist Consciousness in Modern Japan (Stanford University Press, 1983).
Meiji’s Discontents, 1868–1920
Bowen, Roger W., Rebellion and Democracy in Meiji Japan: A Study of Commoners in the Popular Rights Movement (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1980)
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Walker, Brett L., The Lost Wolves of Japan, foreword Cronon, William (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005)
Walker, Brett L., Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan, foreword Cronon, William (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010).
The Birth of Japan’s Imperial State, 1800–1910
Bartholomew, James R., The Formation of Science in Japan (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1989)
Lee Bernstein, Gail, ed., Recreating Japanese Women, 1600–1945 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991)
Frühstück, Sabine, Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003)
Fujita, Fumiko, American Pioneers and the Japanese Frontier: American Experts in Nineteenth-Century Japan (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994)
Garon, Sheldon, Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life (Princeton University Press, 1997)
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Empire and Imperial Democracy, 1905–1931
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Uchinada, Koryu, Ancient Okinawan Martial Arts, trans. McCarthy, Patrick (Rutland, VT and Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 1999)
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The Pacific War, 1931–45
Bay, Alexander, Beriberi in Modern Japan: The Making of a National Disease (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2012)
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Japan’s Post-War History, 1945–Present
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Dower, John. W., Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (New York: W. W. Norton, 1999)
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Michiko, Ishimure, Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow: Our Minamata Disease, trans. Monnet, Livia (Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2003)
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Natural Disasters and the Edge of History
Clancey, Gregory, Earthquake Nation: The Cultural Politics of Japanese Seismicity, 1868–1930 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006)
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McCormack, Gavan, The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence, revised edition, foreword Armonk, Norma Field (New York and London: M. E. Sharpe, 2001)
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Solomon, S., Qin, D., Manning, M., Chen, Z., Marquis, M., Averyt, K. B., Tignor, M., and Miller, H. L., eds., Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: The Physical Science Basis (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
Steinberg, Ted, Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disasters in America (Oxford University Press, 2000)
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