TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tipton,Elise K.
TI  - Modern Japan: a social and political history 
SN  - 9780415418706 (hardback : alk. paper)
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Japan
KW  - Social conditions
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Tokugawa background : the ideal and the real -- The mid-century crisis -- The early Meiji Revolution -- The 1880s and 1890s : defining a Japanese national identity -- Late Meiji : an end and a beginning -- An emerging mass society : demands for equity and the dilemmas of choice -- Contesting the modern in the 1930s -- The dark valley -- "Enduring the unendurable" and starting over in the "new" Japan -- Conflict and consensus in the 1950s -- The "economic miracle" -- and its underside -- The "rich country" -- The "lost decade" -- Whither Japan?
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip081/2007040023.html
ER  -