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The Cambridge History of Japan is a multi-volume survey of Japanese history published by Cambridge University Press (CUP). This was the first major collaborative synthesis presenting the current state of knowledge of Japanese history. [1] The series aims to present as full a view of Japanese history as possible. [2]
The book is divided into seven chapters – the first is an introduction of Meiji-era Japan, chapters two and three deal with the First Sino-Japanese War and Russo-Japanese War respectively, chapter four is about the interwar period, running from 1906 to 1931, chapters five and six detail the "fourteen year war" (1931-1945), and the final ...
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Great Britain and the Opening of Japan, 1834-1858 (1951) Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853-1868 (1955) Historians of China and Japan (1961) The modern history of Japan (1963) The Meiji Restoration (1972). Winner John K. Fairbank Prize; Modern Japan: Aspects of History, Literature, and Society (1975) Japanese Imperialism, 1894 ...
The book is also a reflection of Chinese influence on Japanese civilization. [2] In Japan, the Sinicized court wanted written history that could be compared with the annals of the Chinese. [3] The Nihon Shoki begins with the Japanese creation myth, explaining the origin of the world and the first seven generations of divine beings (starting ...
Hata has been described by numerous historians as an important scholar on the history of modern Japan. Historian Edward Drea has called him "the doyen of Japanese military historians", [4] and has written that Hata's "published works are models of scholarship, research, accuracy, and judicious interpretation", [5] and Joshua A. Fogel, a historian of China at York University, concurs that Hata ...
It was first published at London, in 2 vols., in 1727. The original German (Heutiges Japan, Japan of Today) had not been published; the extant German version was translated from the English. Besides Japanese history, this book contains a description of the political, social and physical state of the country in the 17th century.
A later Chinese work of history, the Book of Wei, states that by 240 AD, the powerful kingdom of Yamatai, ruled by the female monarch Himiko, had gained ascendancy over the others, though modern historians continue to debate its location and other aspects of its depiction in the Book of Wei.