By Elise K. Tipton
This completely up to date moment version of Modern Japan offers a concise and engaging creation to the social, cultural and political historical past of contemporary Japan. starting from the Tokugawa interval to the current day, the ebook charts the country's evolution right into a modernized, financial and political global power.
Dealing with a large and stimulating diversity of issues in an attractive kind that might entice collage scholars and the final reader, this ebook weaves social and political advancements and balances a micro with a macro method, introducing information about daily lives that make clear the larger photo of significant historic alterations. Its systematic realization to gender concerns, minorities and pop culture distinguishes this heritage and contributes to a feeling of the complexity and variety of contemporary jap society.
Completely up to date and together with many new photographs and a timeline that charts very important occasions, this hugely available and accomplished textbook is a vital source for college kids, students and academics of eastern background, politics tradition and society.
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Perhaps the Matsuuras’ ostentatious lifestyle, such as plans to build a very large house, also caused resentment. The higher incidence of protests in commercialized areas and the targeting of property owned by the village elite reflect the social strains of changed class relations in rural areas, effects of economic growth and growth of a market economy rather than uniform misery and exploitation of the peasants. At the same time, however, the intravillage, localized nature of many protests suggests that they did not provide the motive force for a popular revolution against the Tokugawa shogunate, as some historians have previously argued.
No reassessments of land Tokugawa background 13 productivity, which was the basis for tax assessment, were carried out after 1700 or so, nor was there any large increase in the rate of the tax. Who, then, in the village got the surplus? This has been an important question to historians of modern Japan because Marxist historians have seen grinding poverty and oppression as fomenting popular dissatisfaction, which in turn underlay the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate. Marxist historians and the official Neo-Confucian view of social classes have presented a picture of the Tokugawa peasantry as a homogeneous class.
Perry’s first visit had thrown the city of Edo into economic as well as social turmoil, and even after his second visit when fears of hostilities declined, the economic situation in the city remained unstable. To this was added a natural disaster in the form of an earthquake in October 1855. 3 magnitude on the Richter scale killed about 4000 people and destroyed 14,000 houses, although one account put the number of dead at more than 130,000 killed. Fortunately, the quake occurred fairly late at night, so that fewer fires were burning.
