This 2003 book offers a distinctive overview of the internal and external pressures responsible for the emergence of modern Japan.

This is an updated edition of Conrad Totman's authoritative history of Japan from c.8000 BC to the present day. The first edition was widely praised for combini

To this day, Japan's modern ascendancy challenges many assumptions about world history, particularly theories regarding the rise of the west and why the modern

A comprehensive intellectual history describing the forces that made Japanese thinkers both receptive and hostile to Western ideas and values.

This landmark book is the first general English-language history of technology in modern Japan.