Lexington Books
Pages: 232
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978-0-7391-1149-9 • Hardback • September 2005 • $117.00 • (£90.00)
978-0-7391-2810-7 • Paperback • April 2008 • $57.99 • (£45.00)
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Masako Shibata is assistant professor in the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Tsukuba University, Japan.
Chapter 1 List of Tables and Figures
Chapter 2 Foreword
Chapter 3
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 4
Chapter I
Chapter 5
Chapter 2: State Formation, the State Education System, and Elite Formation in Meiji Japan
Chapter 6
Chapter 3: State Formation, the State Education System, and Elite Formation in the German Kaiserreich
Chapter 7
Chapter II
Chapter 8
Chapter 4: The Occupation Reform in Japan, 1945-1952
Chapter 9
Chapter 5: The Occupation Reform in the US-Zone of Germany, 1945-1949
Chapter 10
Chapter III
Chapter 11
Chapter 6: Conclusion 12 Appendix A: The Emperial Rescript on Education [1980] 13 Appendix B: Archival Documents 14 German Glossary 15 Japanese Glossary 16 Bibliography 17 Index 18 About the Author
The volume is indeed fascinating and insightful . . . relevant and thought-provoking.....
— Anni Baker, Wheaton College
Written in a comprehensive and accessible fashion.....
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Shibata draws widely yet eclectically on government documents, memoirs, and contemporary newspaper accounts. . . . Recommended. Undergraduate collections.....
— S.F. White
Masako Shibata's book, Japan and Germany under the U.S. Occupation, is an excellent comparative analysis of post-war education reform in the two countries. Shibata uses crucial findings from Japanese resources and German newspapers of the era. Manyhistorical facts are misconceived by historians, but Shibata uses her linguistic ability to establish her book as close to the essence of the true history....
— Gary H. Tsuchimochi