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JAPAN AND THE UNITED STATES 3

THE PAST DECADE 3

SOME PROBLEMS 4

LAND AND PEOPLE 9

LOCATION，SIZE，AND REGIONS 9

CLIMATE 12

TOPOGRAPHY 13

POPULATION 14

HISTORY 17

THE SINICIZATION OF JAPAN：NARA(710-794)AND HEIAN(794-1185)PERIODS 18

MILITARY DICTATORSHIP TO 1600：KAMAKURA(1185-1333)，MUROMACHI(1333-1568)，AND MOMOYAMA(1568-1600)PERIODS 21

THE TOKUGAWA PERIOD(1600-1868) 24

THE MEIJI PERIOD 28

FOREIGN RELATIONS(1868-1920) 33

INTERNAL DEVELOPMENTS(1890-1920) 37

EXPANSION AFTER THE FIRST WORLD WAR 39

GOVERNMENT 47

GENERAL FEATURES OF PREWAR GOVERNMENT 47

THE POSTWAR GOVERNMENT 51

POLITICAL PARTIES 54

ECONOMIC LIFE 61

NATURAL RESOURCES AND EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES 62

INDUSTRY 69

TRANSPORTATION 73

PUBLIC UTILITIES AND COMMUNICATIONS 74

LABOR 76

FINANCE 79

PUBLIC FINANCE 83

DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN TRADE 85

SOCIAL AND CULTURAL LIFE 91

RACIAL ORIGINS 91

SOME ASPECTS OF THE NATIONAL CHARACTER 92

SOCIAL CLASSES 94

FAMILY ORGANIZATION 96

THE GREATER FAMILY 98

EDUCATION 100

OCCUPATIONS 102

RECREATIONS 102

WAY OF LIFE AND LIVING STANDARD 104

LANGUAGE 106

INTELLECTUAL LIFE 108

FINE ARTS 111

ANCIENT ART(TO CA．600 A．D．) 112

ART OF THE EARLY BUDDHIST PERIOD(TO CA．800) 113

HEIAN ART(800-1200) 114

KAMAKURA ART(1200-1400) 115

MUROMACHI ART(1400-1568) 117

MOMOYAMA ART(1568-1615) 118

TOKUGAWA ART(1615-1868) 119

MODERN ART(SINCE 1868) 121

LITERATURE 125

EARLY POETRY 126

CLASSIC PROSE 127

THE WRITING OF HISTORY 129

THE NO DRAMA 130

TOKUGAWA THEATER 131

HAIKU AND SENRYU 132

THE TOKUGAWA NOVEL 132

MODERN DEVELOPMENTS 133

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY 137

BUDDHISM 138

CONFUCIANISM 139

SHINTO 141

CHRISTIANITY 144