Recommendation on Studying Japanese History to Know Japan Volume 1 (English Edition)

To study a history of our own country is that we know the reasons why we think and do in this way. There are both good things and bad things in the reasons. And there are ones that we can improve and the others that we cannot be changed by something ingrained in the Japanese spirit. We must know the good and bad things in the reasons, and the good things keep continuing and the bad things have to be improved, in order to progress towards the future. I think that is a main purpose to study the history. The textbooks of history for school education written with a lot of beautiful words are useless to do so. It is important to read various books, and my own opinion must not be determined by feedback from one direction. Also it is necessary to face the history without closing our eyes even if it is a taboo. This is the volume 1 of “Recommendation on Studying Japanese History to Know Japan”. Please keep being patient with my poor English until the end of this book. This book can give you the truth of Japanese people because the author is Japanese. I would just like people all over the world to know Japan.

Table of contents of volume 1
Encounter with a person
From the Meiji period to the period of civil wars (From 1467 to 1912)
*About the Meiji period (From 1868 to 1912)
**The Seinan civil war (In 1877)
**The Akiyama brothers
*About the last days of the Tokugawa Shogunate (From 1853 to 1869)
**Shinsaku Takasugi
**Masujirou Ohmura
**Tsugunosuke Kawai
**Ryoujun Matsumoto
*About the period of civil wars, “Sengoku” (From 1467 to 1600)
**Sakon Shima
**Sekigahara
**Kanbei Kuroda
**Takakage Kobayakawa
About faith
*From history to morals
*Masako Shirasu and faith
*About a relationship between old town and Japanese spirit
*Saint Myoue