Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- Timeline of Historical Events -- 1 A Wonderful Place -- 2 Early Japan -- 3 Feudal Japan -- 4 The Tokugawa Era, 1600-1868 -- 5 The Meiji Era: 1868-1912 -- 6 Prewar Japan -- 7 The Pacific War and Allied Occupation -- 8 A New Japan -- 9 Japan in the 1990s -- Appendix A: Notable People in the History of Japan -- Appendix B: The Sat-Cho Oligarchy (Genro) -- Appendix C: Premiers -- Glossary of Selected Terms -- Bibliographic Essay -- Index.