Seigahara -- Tokugawa state -- Foreign relations -- Status groups -- Urbanization and communications -- Development of a mass culture -- Education, though, and religion -- Change, protest, and reform -- Opening to the world -- Tokugawa fall -- Meiji revolution -- Building the meiji state -- Imperial Japan -- Meiji culture -- Japan between the wars -- Taish{229}o culture and society -- China war -- Pacific war -- Yoshida years -- Japan since independence.