Cambridge History of Japan,volume 1
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loginGENERAL EDITORS' PREFACESince the beginning of this century the Cambridge histories have set apattern in the English-reading world for multivolume series containingchapters written by specialists under the guidance of volume editors.Plans for a Cambridge history of Japan were begun in the 1970s andcompleted in 1978. The task was not to be easy. The details of Japa-nese history are not matters of common knowledge among Westernhistorians. The cultural mode of Japan differs greatly from that of theWest, and above all there are the daunting problems of terminologyand language. In compensation, however, foreign scholars have beenassisted by the remarkable achievements of the Japanese scholars dur-ing the last century in recasting their history in modern conceptual andmethodological terms.
