Introduction: modernisation and beyond Gavan McCormack and Yoshio Sugimoto Part I. Popular Culture: tradition and 'modernisation' 1. Sumo and popular culture Harold Bolitho 2. Osaka popular culture Tada Michitaro 3. New trends in Japanese popular culture Kogawa Tetsuo Part II. Popular movements: alternative visions of 'modernisation' 4. Popular movements in modern Japanese history Irokawa Daikichi 5. For self and society Stephen Large Part III. Uneven development and its discontents 6. The other side of Meiji Ian Inkster 7. Nuclear power and the labour movement Yuki Tanaka 8. Street labour markets, day labourers and the structure of oppression Matsuzawa Tessei Part IV. Sex, politics and 'modernity' 9. The Japanese women's movement Ueno Chizuko 10. Male homosexuality as treated by Japanese women writers Tomoko Aoyama 11. Body politics Sandra Buckley 12. Division of labour Vera Mackie Part V. 'Modernisation' and 'modernity' 13. Paths to modernity Johann Arnason 14. The concept of modernisation re-examined from the Japanese experience Kawamura Nozomu Glossary Index.
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