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A Companion to Japanese History

ISBN: 978-1-405-19339-9

July 2009

Wiley-Blackwell

640 pages

Description
A Companion to Japanese History provides an authoritative overview of current debates and approaches within the study of Japan’s history.
  • Composed of 30 chapters written by an international group of scholars
  • Combines traditional perspectives with the most recent scholarly concerns
  • Supplements a chronological survey with targeted thematic analyses
  • Presents stimulating interventions into individual controversies
About the Author
William M. Tsutsui is Professor of History at the University of Kansas. He is the author of Godzilla on My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters (2004), Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in Twentieth-Century Japan (1998), and Banking Policy in Japan: American Efforts at Reform During the Occupation (1988).
Features

  • An authoritative overview of current debates and approaches within the study of Japan’s history
  • Composed of 30 chapters written by an international group of scholars
  • Combines traditional perspectives with the most recent scholarly concerns
  • Supplements a chronological survey with targeted thematic analyses
  • Presents stimulating interventions into individual controversies