Sources of Japanese Tradition - 1868 to 2000 2e V 2 Pt2 Abridged : Part Two

Preface xxiii Explanatory Note xxv Chronology xxvii Contributors xxxi PART FIVE Japan, Asia, and the West 1(320) 35. The Meiji Restoration Fred G. Notehelter 5(25) Edict to Subjugate the Shogunlaugawa Yoshinobu 6(1) Letter of Resignation of the Last Shogun 6(1) Edict to Foreign Diplomats 7(1) The Charter Oath 7(1) The Constitution of 1868 8(2) The Abolition of Feudalism and the Centralization of the Meiji State 10(2) Memorial on the Proposal to Return the Registers 10(2) Imperial Rescript on the Abolition of the hail 12(1) The Leaders and Their Vision 12(18) The Iwakura Mission 13(1) Kido Takayoshi's Observations of Education in the United States 14(1) Kido on the Need for Constitutional Government 14(1) Kume Kunitake's Assessment of European Wealth and Power 15(1) Kido's Observations on Returning from the West 16(1) Consequences of the Iwakura Mission: Saigo and Okubo on Korea 17(1) Letters from Saigo Thkamori to Itagaki Taisuke on the Korean Question 19(1) Okubo Toshimichi's Reasons for Opposing the Korean Expedition 20(4) The Meiji Emperor 24(1) Letter from the Meiji Emperor to His People 25(1) Comments from the Imperial Progress of 1878 27(1) A Glimpse of the Meiji Emperor in 1872 by Takashima Tomonosuke 27(1) Charles Lanman's Description of the Meiji Emperor in 1882 28(1) The Meiji Emperor's Conversation with Hijikata Hisamoto on the Outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War 28(1) A Poem by the Meiji Emperor on the Eve of the Russo-Japanese War 29(1) 36. Civilization and Enlightenment Albert Craig 30(22) Fukuzawa Yukichi 32(10) Fukuzawa Yukichi's View of Civilization 34(1) An Outline of a Theory of Civilization 34(1) An Eneourag,einent of- Learning 41(1) Enlightenment Thinkers of the Meirokusha: On Marriage 42(10) Mori Arinori 42(1) On Wives and Concubines 43(1) Kato Hiroyuki 44(1) Abuses of Equal Rights for Men and Women 44(1) Fukuzawa Yukichi 45(1) The Equal Numbers of Men and Women 45(1) Sakatani Shiroshi 46(1) On Concubines 46(2) Tsuda Mamichi 48(1) Distinguishing the Equal Rights of Husbands and Wives 48(1) Nakamura Masanao: China Should Not Be Despised 49(1) Japan's Debt to China 50(2) 37. Popular Rights and Constitutionalism James Huffman 52(29) Debating a National Assembly, 1873-1875 53(3) Itagaki Taisuke 54(1) Memorial on the Establishment of a Representative Assembly 54(1) Nakamura Masanao 55(1) On Changing the Character of the People 55(1) Representative Assemblies and National Progress, February 1879 56(2) Editorial from Choya shinbun 57(1) Defining the Constitutional State, 1876-1883 58(7) Ito Hirobumi 59(1) Memorial on Constitutional Government 59(2) Okuma Shigenobu 61(1) Memorial on a National Assembly 61(1) Chiba Takasaburo 62(1) "The Way of the King" 62(2) Nakae Chomin 64(1) A Discourse by Three Drunkards on Government 64(1) The Emergence of Political Parties 65(5) Itagaki Taisuke 66(1) "On Liberty" 66(1) Fukuchi Gen'ichiro 67(1) Teiseito Platform 67(1) Okuma Shigenobu 68(1) To Members of the Kaishinto 68(1) Ozaki Yukio 69(1) Factions and Parties 69(1) Bestowing the Constitution on the People, 1884-1889 70(3) Ito Hirobumi 71(1) Reminiscences of the Drafting of the New Constitution 71(2) Controlling the Freedom and People's Rights Movement 73(3) Fukuda Hideko 74(1) My Life Thus Far 74(1) Newspaper Accounts of Arrests Under the Peace Preservation Law 75(1) The Meiji Constitution 76(5) The Constitution of the Empire of Japan 76(3) Ubukata Toshiro 79(1) "The Promulgation of the Constitution" 79(2) 38. Education in Meiji Japan Richard Rubinger 81(36) Views in the Early Meiji Period 88(1) Iwakura Tomomi and Aristocratic Education 88(1) "Admonitions to Court Nobles" 88(1) "Further Admonitions" 89(1) Kido Takayoshi and Ito Hirobumi on Universal Education 89(5) Kido Takayoshi: Draft Memorial for the Ionnediate Promotion of Universal Education 90(1) Ito Hirobumi: "Principles of National Policy" 91(1) Fukuzawa Yukichi and Education 91(1) An Encouragement of Learning 92(2) The First Meiji School System 94(2) Preamble to the Fundamental Code of Education 95(1) The Confucian Critique 96(12) Motoda Eifu and Emperor-Centered Education 96(1) Great Principles of Education 96(2) Tani Tateki's Critique of the West 98(1) Opinion on Reform of Army Pension Law 98(1) Nakamura Masanao's Synthesis of East and West 99(1) "Past Present, East West: One Morality" 99(4) Mon Arinori and the Later Meiji School System 103(1) "Essentials of Educational Administration" 104(1) Military-Style Physical Training 105(1) Inoue Kowashi and Patriotic Training 106(1) Public Education and the National Substance 107(1) "Plan to Defend the National Interest" 107(1) The Imperial Rescript on Education 108(2) The Opening 108(2) The Extended Meaning of the Rescript 110(1) Teachers and Reform from Below 110(1) "Reducing Interference in Textbook Selection" 111(1) State Control over Textbooks 111(4) Kikuchi Dairoku and the Textbook Scandal of 1903 111(1) Japanese Education 112(3) The Education of Women in the Meiji Period 115(3) Progress of Female Education in Meiji 115(2) 39. Nationalism and Pan-Asianism 117(31) State Shinto Helen Hardacre 118(9) The Unity of