Japan before the seventeenth century -- Establishment of the Tokugawa Bakufu -- Late Tokugawa period -- Fall of the Tokugawa Bakufu -- Meiji restoration -- Countinuing Meiji revolution -- Political developments in later Meiji -- Conclusion of the Meiji era -- Era of parliamentary ascendancy -- Ascendancy of militarism -- Road to war -- War and defeat -- Postwar years -- Developments since 1970

1. Japan -- History -- 19th century
2. Japan -- History -- 20th century