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Contents

1 Exploring Japan Japan—A Nation Apart?

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Early Settlers

A sculpture of the priest Hoshi, whose face is splitting to reveal a deity .

Rice and Emperors

2 In the Shadow of China Learning from China and Korea

10 12 14

An Age of Reform

Capital of Peace and Tranquillity

3 Shoguns and Samurai The Rise of the Samurai

16 18

Troubled Times

4 The Coming of the Barbarians Guns and Missionaries

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Japan Unified The Last Bakufu

Closing the Country Know Your Place!

5 Opening Up Intrusion and Revolution

Civilization and Enlightenment

Change and Old Ways

Globe Trotters

Alliance and Defiance

Japan at War

6 The New Japan Modernization

42 44

Japan Today

46 47 48

Time Chart

Glossary

Index

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