Japanese Political History since the Meiji Renovation 1868–2000

Chapter 1 The Meiji Renovation

Chapter 2 The Consolidation of the Meiji State and the Growth of Political Opposition, 1878–90

Chapter 3 The Constitutional Experiment and the Beginning of Compromise Politics, 1890–1905

Chapter 4 Political Party Consolidation, Oligarchic Reaction and the Emergence of New Forces, 1905–18

Chapter 5 Party Cabinets, Radical Movements and the Collapse of Taisho Democracy, 1918–32

Chapter 6 The Pursuit of Greater National Unity and the War State, 1932–45

Chapter 7 The Post-War Reshaping of Japanese Politics, 1945–52

Chapter 8 The ‘1955 System’ and the Era of L. D. P. Dominance, 1952–93