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• Coverpage
• Half title page
• Cambridge Concise Histories
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• List of Maps
• Preface
• Chronology
• Introduction: Writing Japanese History
• 1 The Birth of the Yamato State, 14,500 BCE – 710 CE
• 2 The Courtly Age, 710–1185
• 3 The Rise of Samurai Rule, 1185–1336
• 4 Medieval Japan and the Warring States Period, 1336–1573
• 5 Japan’s Encounter with Europe, 1543–1640
• 6 Unifying the Realm, 1560–1603
• 7 Early Modern Japan, 1600–1800
• 8 The Rise of Imperial Nationalism, 1770–1854
• 9 Meiji Enlightenment, 1868–1912
• 10 Meiji’s Discontents, 1868–1920
• 11 The Birth of Japan’s Imperial State, 1800–1910
• 12 Empire and Imperial Democracy, 1905–1931
• 13 The Pacific War, 1931–1945
• 14 Japan’s Post-War History, 1945–Present
• 15 Natural Disasters and the Edge of History
• Glossary
• Further Reading
• Index