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	Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Japan is situated in a volcanic zone on the Pacific Ring of Fire at the juncture of the Philippine Plate, Pacific Plate, Eurasian Plate and North American Plate.
		Japan is a temperate region with, more or less, four seasons (some believe the rainy season should be a fifth season), but because of its great length from north to south, its climate varies from region to region: the far north is very cold in the winter, while the far south is subtropical.
		The Japanese population is rapidly aging, the effect of a post-war baby boom followed by a decrease in births as the country modernized in the latter part of the 20th century (notable aspects including the shift from agricultural to urban lifestyles and the increasing tendency for women to remain in the workplace).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japan (4896 words)

	Modern Japan
		Not everyone in Japan agreed with this direction, of course, and the unrest that it provoked ultimately led to the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate and the Meiji Restoration, in which the Emperor Meiji was "restored" to power.
		On the one hand, in order to modernize the government the new rulers would need to dismantle the old feudal system, which meant taking away the considerable privileges enjoyed by the aristocratic classes--although the new government posts were typically filled by these aristocrats, so they still wielded political power.
		Japan's current emperor, Akihito, himself a scientist, describes how contacts with Europeans during the Meiji period transformed Japanese attitudes towards science, particularly medicine, which had been strongly influenced by China.
	www.wsu.edu /~dee/MODJAPAN/INTRO.HTM (1170 words)

	Japan - Atlapedia Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It is bound by the Sea of Japan, the Korea Strait and the East China Sea to the west, the Pacific Ocean to the east and the La Perouse Strait to the north.
		Central Japan is marked by the convergence of three mountain chains that form the Hida Mountains or Japanese Alps.
		In 1973 Japan experienced an oil crisis which exposed the country's deficiency of local energy supplies, however, by the second oil crisis of 1979 Japan was a world leader in energy saving technology.
	www.atlapedia.com /online/countries/japan.htm (2005 words)

	History Textbook Controversies in Japan. ERIC Digest.
		Their complaints centered around the text's presentation of Japan's foundation myths as historical fact and its characterization of wars launched by modern Japan as wars to liberate Asia.
		As a mirror for Americans, Japan's textbook controversy may shed light on what could happen here if the dominant narrative, our "official" story of our past, were challenged by a counter narrative, one that threatens to alter or even replace a conventional textbook narrative.
		Japan lost the war that is the center of the textbook controversy.
	www.ericdigests.org /2003-1/japan.htm (1436 words)

	Intersections: Male Homosexuality and Popular Culture in Modern Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		However, during Japan's rapid modernisation in the Meiji period (1867-1912), this understanding of homosexuality as one 'Way' [doo] of enjoying sex began to be displaced by western sexological terms such as dooseiaisha (the Chinese-character translation of 'homosexual,' literally 'same-sex-love person') which suggested that homosexual desire was characteristic of a certain type of person: the homosexual.
		The manga industry in Japan is immense, 470 million copies of various manga being published every year[14] which appeal to different demographic groups: school boys, university students, businessmen, female office workers and housewives.
		She concludes that 'homosexuals are, as you would expect, somehow lady-like.'[29] Women's media in Japan constantly reiterate the idea that gay men are substantially different from straight men and that they more closely resemble women both in their appearance and in their sensibilities.
	wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au /intersections/issue3/mclelland2.html (5649 words)

	Animefringe: Reviews - The Making of Modern Japan
		An army langauge program, followed by a stint in Okinawa and Japan gave Jansen an interest in Japanese culture that is evident from the labor of love that is this text.
		After the horrors of the bomb, the American reconstruction of Japan is portrayed, as is the changing and insanity of Japanese politics.
		Modern Japan fills in the information that perhaps have been common knowledge for the film's intended audience, Japanese people in the 1950's, that are simply unknown to most modern Westerner.
	www.animefringe.com /magazine/01.07/reviews/6/index.php3 (926 words)

	Reproduction in Modern Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Medical care during pregnancy in Japan emphasizes balanced nutrition and weight control as the most important determinants of the health of the future child.
		The mean age of first marriage for women in Japan rose from about 23 years of age in 1920 to 27 years in 2000, and the mean age of first childbirth rose to 28 years.
		I argue first that while the 1937 story centers on the geisha -- a woman whose sexual allure depends on her not getting pregnant -- the new piece signals the end of liberal consumerism and the beginning of the state-controlled wartime economy in which women were assigned to engage in productive and reproductive labor.
	www.yale.edu /ycias/ceas/reproduction/reproduction_abstracts.html (3070 words)

	Modern Japan
		The history of modern Japan is one of juggling Westernization with a selective preservation of tradition, transforming and renaming tradition in the process.
		Post-World War II Japanese history was marked by American occupation and then rapid economic development, so that by the 1980s, Japan was widely regarded as a miracle country with the no.2 largest economy in the world.
		Before the coming of Perry, Japan was in a feudal state that in many ways resembled European feudalism, although there were differences.
	www.indiana.edu /~hisdcl/h207_2002/modernjapannotes.htm (659 words)

	H-Net Review: James C. Baxter on The Economic Emergence of Modern Japan
		Nakamura rebuts the view that "the revival of prosperity in the early 1930s was due to increased military spending," citing research that shows that military demand, as a percent of total demand, actually declined in the heavy capital goods, chemicals, and machinery industries in the years to 1936.
		Japan became a world economic power by taking a number of steps that may need to be repeated, mutatis mutandis, for it to overcome the challenges it faces at the turn of the millennium.
		Modern economic growth, they are persuaded, depends in its initial phase on accelerated growth of the traditional economy; Japan was fortunate in that its agricultural and traditional industrial sectors had the capacity to grow.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=30676889470438 (4404 words)

	Japan: A Modern History (Main Page) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Beginning with the splendor of Tokugawa Ieyasu's investiture as shogun at the Fushimi Castle in 1603, and ending with the cataclysms and rebirths of its twentieth century, here is a panoramic and insightful history of modern Japan.
		The rise and fall of the samurai, the restoration of imperial rule under the Meiji, the emergence of a regional power are all woven into the narrative.
		This is a brilliant history of Japan told for the first time from the bottom up as well as the top down.
	www.wwnorton.com /catalog/fall01/004156.htm (327 words)

	How Private Individuals Created Modern Japan
		In a single generation, during the late 19th century, Japan transformed itself from a backward rural nation to a dynamic economy.
		Japan's most serious scarcity was technical knowledge, and for a number of years this was alleviated by doctors, chemists, engineers, economists and other experts who came from abroad.
		Japan's biggest exporters in the 1930s were unsubsidized silk and cotton producers.
	www.libertystory.net /LSBIGSTORIESMODERNJAPAN.htm (5378 words)

	Book Review: Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
		Then, amid Japan's war against China, he took sides, supporting, not surprisingly, the nation that he was believed to be leading.
		His generals were reluctant to accept failure in China, and Hirohito faced a great decision: whether to give up Japan's occupation of China or, in order to continue the war, to extend war to the Dutch, British and Americans, who were holding back resources that the Japanese needed to pursue war.
		Europe was at war, and Hirohito saw Japan's ally in Europe, Germany, at the height of its power.
	www.fsmitha.com /review/r-hirohito.html (319 words)

	Modern Japan: A Historical Survey (Mikiso Hane)
		Modern Japan is exactly what the title suggests -- a general history of Japan from the Meiji restoration in 1868 to the present.
		The coverage of recent history is fairly brief, with only 80 pages covering the entire post-war period, so those who want a description of the Japanese "economic miracle" should look elsewhere.
		I don't know enough about Japanese history to evaluate Modern Japan as a history of Japan, but as general national histories go it is pretty impressive.
	www.dannyreviews.com /h/Modern_Japan.html (145 words)

	Pictures of Japan - Japan-101.com
		Modern culture captured in the faces and actions of the Japanese people.
		Japan is divided into 47 prefectures, similar to US states.
		Japan is divided into 8 regions, each consisting of several prefectures except for Hokkaido which is a single region and prefecture.
	www.japan-101.com /photos (541 words)

	Premodern Japan: A Historical Survey (Mikiso Hane)
		From prehistory to the Meiji restoration, Premodern Japan presents an overview of Japanese political history along with an extensive coverage of cultural history (in particular religion and the plastic arts) and some discussion of economic and social history.
		Early Japanese history is enthralling both in itself and as background necessary for understanding modern Japan.
		The history of the latter is presumably described in the companion book Modern Japan: A Historical Survey, which I intend to buy as soon as I can find a copy.
	www.dannyreviews.com /h/Premodern_Japan.html (122 words)

	Welcome to Departmant of History, McMaster University
		The theme of this course might be “Japan: Two and a Half Crises.” The first of these was the threat presented to Japan’s survival by the western nations in the mid-nineteenth century; the second was the burden of national rebuilding after the crushing defeat of World War II.
		The years from the opening of Japan to the West in the 1850s to Japan’s emergence as a major economic power in the 1970s receive particular attention.
		Attention is also given to Japan’s pre-modern history and to political and social developments from the 1970s to the present.
	www.humanities.mcmaster.ca /~history/courses/undergraduate/2003-2004/3B03.html (793 words)

	Home Page
		The Early Modern Japan Network (EMJNet) is an interdisciplinary, international community of specialists of early modern Japan.
		We are affiliated with the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies.
		EMJNet publishes Early Modern Japan: An Interdisciplinary Journal, an annual publication of scholarly essays, academic news, and book reviews.
	emjnet.osu.edu (88 words)

	HIS 372 / 572, EARLY MODERN JAPAN:
		The Technological Transformation of Japan: From the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Century.
		Tokugawa Japan: The Social And Economic Antecedents of Modern Japan.
		Makela (l.makela@csuohio.edu) for the use of students at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, who are enrolled in HIS 372/572, The History of Early Modern Japan during the Spring Semester of the 2004 - 2005 Academic Year; please contact him with any comments.
	academic.csuohio.edu /makelaa/history/courses/his372/rea02c.html (657 words)

	Japan Travel Information including Japan National Tourist Organization link (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The high backbone of the Japan Alps, active and dormant volcanoes, lakes and sea, and the transmutations of nature with changing seasons, all draw visitors to the nation's finest natural attractions, including those in the system of grand national parks.
		Japan is both old and new, and the two aspects of its culture coexist in a benign environment.
		An "intelligent" office building, the epitome of modern Japan in the socalled information age, may have a tiny Shinto shrine on its roof as a testament to the traditional beliefs and values that do not die out.
	www.asiatravel.org /Japan/index.html (474 words)

	Bibliography of Modern Japan
		Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period.
		Yamagata Aritomo in the Rise of Modern Japan, 1838-1922.
		Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan: Buddhism and its Persecution.
	www.chss.iup.edu /baumler/j-bib.html (461 words)

	History 3413: Modern Japan
		This senior-level seminar course focuses on the history of modern Japan during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
		The emergence of modern 'mass' nationalism in Japan in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including the Western political ideas of democracy, socialism, and nationalism
		Discuss the evolution of the samurai or bushi class in Japan during the Kamakura and Ashikage periods.
	ace.acadiau.ca /history/nearcwor/Hist34132001.htm (2269 words)

	Yahooligans! - Around the World:Countries:Japan
		Japan and China Images - QuickTime VR movies of buildings and nature scenes from Japan and China.
		Japan Atlas - view slide shows of various cities in Japan, and check out the special presentations on history, architecture, festvials, nature, traditional crafts, modern technology, and more.
		Japan's Religion and Philosophy (Shinto, Buddhism, Christianity, Religion in Japan Today) - overview of Shinto, Buddhism, Christianity, and religion in modern Japan.
	www.yahooligans.com /Around_the_World/Countries/Japan (308 words)

	Kerbo and McKinstry - Modern Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		On a recent visit to Japan, this slim volume illuminated many puzzling aspects of the society I briefly encountered.
		This must be especially puzzling in light of the amazingly low rate of crime in modern Japan.
		"standard religious practices in Japan offer very little sense of any purpose or meaning; hence, some people see commitment to some sort of extremist cause, be it a political or quasi-religious movement, as the only available outlet for devotion.
	www.nous.org.uk /Kerbo.html (435 words)

	japan-guide.com - Japan Travel and Living Guide
		Bicyles are widely used in Japan for various everyday activities.
		Japan's major tourist event of the year, the Expo 2005 Aichi is now being held just outside of Nagoya until September 25, 2005.
		The Japan Rail Pass is just one of many rail passes for train travel in Japan.
	www.japan-guide.com (338 words)

	Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series/ Japan / Bibliography
		Peasants, Rebels, and Outcastes: The Underside of Modern Japan.
		Words in Motion: Modern Japanese Calligraphy: An Exhibition by the Library of Congress and the Yomiuri Shimbun, June 15, 1984-September 15, 1984.
		Japan in the Global Community: Its Role and Contribution on the Eve of the 21st Century.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /frd/cs/japan/jp_bibl.html (11216 words)

	Japan-Zone - Modern Japan
		Japan travel guide, information on Japan and Japanese culture.
		Japan's top electronics brands, such as Sony and Panasonic, continue to dominate the world.
		The almost insatiable demand for new gadgets in Japan means that new products come out on almost a weekly basis and some of them never make it to foreign markets.
	www.japan-zone.com /modern/index.shtml (238 words)

	uBlog: Milestones
		Japan had crime, iniquity and yes, sectarian and ethnic violence.
		Iraq may not be upstaged in the near future; nor should it have to be.
		It's our responsibility to gain a sense of patience - not rely on the benefits of a short attention span or a near-complete ignorance of the trials faced in the most instructive occupations, those for Germany and Japan.
	www.figureconcord.com /ublog/archives/000808.html (996 words)

	Scholar focuses on history of modern Japan
		“Andrew Gordon addresses the complexities of modern Japan in a way that is both illuminating to fellow scholars and engaging to the general public,” said Andrew Bernstein, assistant professor of history.
		He specializes in the economic history of modern Japan and is currently researching the making of the modern consumer in 20th-century Japan.
		The Throckmorton lecture was established in 1963 to commemorate the life and work of Arthur L. Throckmorton, a professor of history at Lewis & Clark who died unexpectedly in 1962.
	www.lclark.edu /cgi-bin/shownews.cgi?1108495800.0 (296 words)

	Modern Japan - Entertainment - Popular Music
		Think about it - Sony Music Entertainment is one of the biggest record companies in the world; Yamaha is the largest manufacturer of musical instruments in the world; Japan has the sixth-largest population in the world; the music industry generates billions and billions of dollars worldwide every year.
		The rockabilly sounds of the late 50's became popular in the cities of Japan just after they revolutionised the US music scene.
		He then moved up a gear to exploit aspiring singers and fans alike to become one of the richest men in Japan.
	www.japan-zone.com /modern/pop.shtml (1343 words)

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