Ebook: Modern Japan: a social history since 1868

1. Out of isolation -- 2. Racism -- 3. Towards a new Japan -- 4. Japan's outcastes : discrimination then ; Discrimination now -- 5. 'All citizens are soldiers' -- 6. Unfriendly neighbours : the peoples of Japan and Korea -- 7. Japanese tradition and the curbing of 'dangerous thoughts' -- 8. 'The wish of the dead child'. Women in Japan : a wish denied? -- 9. The pacific war : 'hakko ichiu' -- 10. Education : from 'the fundamental character of our empire' to the cornerstone of modern Japan -- 11. Swords to ploughshares : Japan since 1945.