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An Outline History of Japan

Herbert Henry Gowen (1864 - 1960)

A history of Japan from its origins to the early 20th century. - Summary by Kazbek

Genre(s): Middle Ages/Middle History, Early Modern, Modern (19th C)

Language: English

Keyword(s): history of japan (2)

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 00	Introduction: Why Study Japanese History?	Kazbek	00:27:17
Play 01	Chapter I. Preliminaries	Cavaet	00:26:48
Play 02	Chapter II. Origin, Race and Language	Sean Winchell	00:17:02
Play 03	Chapter III. Mythical Japan	Sean Winchell	00:18:17
Play 04	Chapter IV. Legendary Japan	magpie42	00:38:58
Play 05	Chapter V. Primitive Japan	Seraphina	00:15:06
Play 06	Chapter VI. The Protohistoric Age	Seraphina	00:21:28
Play 07	Chapter VII. The Coming of Buddhism	Victor Dorff	00:21:05
Play 08	Chapter VIII. The Great Reform	Cavaet	00:22:11
Play 09	Chapter IX. "The Great Discovery"	Cavaet	00:06:28
Play 10	Chapter X. The Nara Period	mildmeme	00:24:17
Play 11	Chapter XI. The Capital Moves to Kyoto	mildmeme	00:34:30
Play 12	Chapter XII. Taira versus Minamoto	mildmeme	00:32:05
Play 13	Chapter XIII. The Hojo Regency (1199-1333)	Larry Wilson	00:30:48
Play 14	Chapter XIV. The Hojo Culture	Kazbek	00:27:56
Play 15	Chapter XV. The Ashikaga Shoguns	Cavaet	00:26:36
Play 16	Chapter XVI. The Coming of the Foreigner	Louise J. Belle	00:36:50
Play 17	Chapter XVII. The Era of Military Dictatorship	Larry Wilson	00:26:31
Play 18	Chapter XVIII. The Regency of Hideyoshi	Cavaet	00:26:27
Play 19	Chapter XIX. The First Tokugawa Shogun	Cavaet	00:40:03
Play 20	Chapter XX. The First Successors of Iyeyasu (1605-1651)	Larry Wilson	00:20:11
Play 21	Chapter XXI. Iyetsuna to Iyetsugu (1651-1716)	Larry Wilson	00:25:24
Play 22	Chapter XXII. From Yoshimune to Iyeharu (1716-1786)	Larry Wilson	00:19:25
Play 23	Chapter XXIII. Iyenari to the Coming of Perry (1787-1853)	Luke Oldham	00:34:40
Play 24	Chapter XXIV. The Reopening of Japan (1853-1854)	Luke Oldham	00:40:25
Play 25	Chapter XXV. The Beginnings of Meiji	Nadhifa A	00:51:19
Play 26	Chapter XXVI. The Era of Expansion	Kay Dropiewski	00:38:33
Play 27	Chapter XXVII. The Last Years of Meiji	hearmeout7	00:23:28
Play 28	Chapter XXVIII. The New Era of Taisho	Seraphina	00:38:46
Play 29	Chapter XXIX. Aftermaths of the Great War	Elsie Selwyn	00:28:21
Play 30	Chapter XXX. The Great Earthquake and After	Elsie Selwyn	00:28:44
Play 31	Chapter XXXI. The Beginning of Showa	Nadhifa A	00:26:32
Play 32	Appendix I. Constitution of the Empire of Japan	Cbteddy	00:15:35
Play 33	Appendix II. First Treaty between Japan and the United States, 1854	Nadhifa A	00:09:30
Play 34	Appendix III. Anglo-Japanese Treaty of January 30, 1902	czandra	00:03:20
Play 35	Appendix IV. Agreement between Japan and the United Kingdom	czandra	00:05:25
Play 36	Appendix V. The Gentlemen's Agreement	Victor Dorff	00:02:03
Play 37	Appendix VI. Convention Embodying Basic Rules of the Relations between Japan and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics	Victor Dorff	00:07:26

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