Modern Japan

This work describes Japan's development since the early 1600s through the words and pictures of those who lived it. Drawing on a rich variety of primary sources-student essays, editorial cartoons, novelists' complaints, diary entries, government documents, and travel accounts, to name a few, Modern Japan: A History in Documents narrates Japan's movement from the self-contained days of the seventeenth-century to the country's intense engagement with the world in the last two centuries. The documents are woven together by a narrative that explains their place in the national story.