Introduction Modern Japan: an historian's view / W.G. Beasley -- pt. 1. History The politics of the Civil War of 1868 / Charles D. Sheldon -- Shinbunshi: the early Meiji adaptation of the Western-style newspaper / Albert A. Altman -- Japan and naval aspects of the Washington Conference / Ian Nish -- Myth and reality in Japan in the 1930s / Ben-Ami Shillony -- National elections and electioneering in Akita Ken, 1930-1942 / R.L. Sims -- The Great Tokyo Air Raid, 9-10 March 1945 / Gordon Daniels -- pt. 2. Literature Matsui Sumako: actress and woman / Brian Powell -- Modernisation of the Japanese theatre: the Shingeki Movement / A Horie-Webber -- Abe Kōbō and Ōe Kenzaburō: the search for identity in contemporary Japanese literature / Hisaaki Yamanouchi -- pt. 3. Society New religions in Japan: an appraisal of two theories / Eimi Watanbe Rajana -- The use and meaning of leisure in present-day Japan / Sepp Linhart -- Union-management conflict in a Japanese company / R.C. Clark -- Regional development policy in Japan: some aspects of the plan for remodelling the Japanese archipelago / John Sargent -- Japan's policy towards foreign trade: the strategic options / Christopher Howe
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Papers selected from a conference held in April, 1973 in Oxford and London
