Syllabus/achievement requirements

Andrew Gordon, A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2^nd ed.

Yoshio Sugimoto, An Introduction to Japanese Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 4^th ed., p. 64-90.

Arne Kalland, Japans historie: Fra jegersamfunn til ?konomisk supermakt (Oslo: Cappelen).