History of Modern Japan
Notes, with illustrations


Overview of  Ancient Japan
Medieval Japan
Modern Japan
Politics and Society in Tokugawa Japan
Supplementary Bibliography on Tokugawa Japan

Ukiyoe: Samples of the Floating World

Scenes from the Lion Dance

Collapse of the "Old Regime"

    Supplementary Bibliography on the Meiji Restoration

The Meiji Reinvention of Imperial Japan

    Supplementary Bibliography on Meiji Politics

    Alternative Notes on Meiji Restoration

Redefining Political Ideals and Order

    Translated Text of the Meiji Constitution

    Meiji Period Imperial Household Law

The Meiji Underside

Meiji Imperialism

       Meiji Economic Modernization

       Yamagata Aritomo (1838-1922)

       Russo-Japanese War

       Bush's East Asian Tour: Japan

Paradoxes in Taisho Japan

      Scenes from the 1923 Tokyo Earthquake

      Radical Women of Taisho Japan

The Dark Valley of Militarism
(Includes Notes for the Pacific War)
          Photo of Inukai Tsuyoshi

          Hirohito in Pictures

          Nanjing Massacre Websites

         Art by Comfort Women

The Pacific War

          Text of FDR's Day of Infamy Speech

          U. S. Declaration of War

           Japanese Internment

War Without Mercy
(Supplementary notes, in more detail than class time permits)

Scenes from Hiroshima,1945/95

Wartime money

Hellish Scenes from WWII

Japanese Surrender Documents

American Occupation
General Douglas MacArthur

Declassified Documents on the Imperial Line

Postwar (1947) "MacArthur Constitution"

Draft Page of the MacArthur Constitution

Postwar Imperial Household Law

Tojo Hideki's Prison Diary

Yoshida Shigeru and the Rise of the LDP

Japan's Economic Miracle

Neo-Conservatism & Tensions in Late-Showa, 
    Early-Heisei Japan
 
 


The Meiji Emperor


The Meiji Empress


The Taisho Emperor


The Showa Emperor


Hiroshima watch


MacArthur & Hirohito