Outline History of Japan Herbert Henry Gowen 38 chapters · 15 h 40 min · English Read by Kazbek, Cavaet, Sean Winchell, magpie42, Seraphina, Victor Dorff and others Middle Ages/Middle History · Early Modern · Miscellaneous Play☆ Favorite A history of Japan from its origins to the early 20th century. - Summary by Kazbek Find the book onHathiTrustAmazon&Barnes & NobleBooks-A-MillionLibriVox Chapters 1Introduction: Why Study Japanese History?27 min2Chapter I. Preliminaries27 min3Chapter II. Origin, Race and Language17 min4Chapter III. Mythical Japan18 min5Chapter IV. Legendary Japan39 min6Chapter V. Primitive Japan15 min7Chapter VI. The Protohistoric Age21 min8Chapter VII. The Coming of Buddhism21 min9Chapter VIII. The Great Reform22 min10Chapter IX. "The Great Discovery"6 min11Chapter X. The Nara Period24 min12Chapter XI. The Capital Moves to Kyoto34 min13Chapter XII. Taira versus Minamoto32 min14Chapter XIII. The Hojo Regency (1199-1333)31 min15Chapter XIV. The Hojo Culture28 min16Chapter XV. The Ashikaga Shoguns27 min17Chapter XVI. The Coming of the Foreigner37 min18Chapter XVII. The Era of Military Dictatorship27 min19Chapter XVIII. The Regency of Hideyoshi26 min20Chapter XIX. The First Tokugawa Shogun40 min21Chapter XX. The First Successors of Iyeyasu (1605-1651)20 min22Chapter XXI. Iyetsuna to Iyetsugu (1651-1716)25 min23Chapter XXII. From Yoshimune to Iyeharu (1716-1786)19 min24Chapter XXIII. Iyenari to the Coming of Perry (1787-1853)35 min25Chapter XXIV. The Reopening of Japan (1853-1854)40 min26Chapter XXV. The Beginnings of Meiji51 min27Chapter XXVI. The Era of Expansion39 min28Chapter XXVII. The Last Years of Meiji23 min29Chapter XXVIII. The New Era of Taisho39 min30Chapter XXIX. Aftermaths of the Great War28 min31Chapter XXX. The Great Earthquake and After29 min32Chapter XXXI. The Beginning of Showa27 min33Appendix I. Constitution of the Empire of Japan16 min34Appendix II. First Treaty between Japan and the United States, 185410 min35Appendix III. Anglo-Japanese Treaty of January 30, 19023 min36Appendix IV. Agreement between Japan and the United Kingdom5 min37Appendix V. The Gentlemen's Agreement2 min38Appendix VI. Convention Embodying Basic Rules of the Relations between Japan and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics7 min