''The Cambridge History of Japan'' is a multi-volume survey of Japanese history published by

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(CUP). This was the first major collaborative synthesis presenting the current state of knowledge of Japanese history.Cambridge University Press
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retrieved 2011-08-12 The series aims to present as full a view of Japanese history as possible. The collaborative work brings together the writing of Japanese specialists and historians of Japan.

History

Plans for the project were initiated in the 1970s; and the first of the volumes was published in 1988. The general editor,

John Whitney Hall John Whitney Hall (September 13, 1916 – October 21, 1997),"John Whitney Hall papers, 1930–1999", Yale University Library was an American historian of Japan who specialized in premodern Japanese history. His life work was recognized by the Japane ...

, was expressly focused on the task of identifying arrays of relationships in Japanese history—such as, for example, between the chronology of military exploits in the 16th century and an account of consequences which developed over time. The several volumes include: * Vol. 1. ''Ancient Japan,'' edited by

Delmer Brown Delmer Myers Brown (November 20, 1909November 9, 2011) was an American academic, historian, writer, translator and Japanologist. He was a professor of Japanese history at the University of California at Berkeley. Early life, education, and perso ...

(1993) * Vol. 2. ''Heian Japan,'' edited by

Donald Shively Donald Howard Shively (May 11, 1921 – August 13, 2005) was an American academic, historian, Japanologist, author and professor emeritus of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley.Fox, Margalit "Donald H. Shi ...

and William H. McCullough (1999) * Vol. 3. ''Medieval Japan,'' edited by Kozo Yamamura (1990) * Vol. 4. ''Early modern Japan,'' edited by John Whitney Hall and

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(1991) * Vol. 5. ''The Nineteenth Century,'' edited by

Marius Jansen Marius Berthus Jansen (April 11, 1922 – December 10, 2000) was an American academic, historian, and Emeritus Professor of Japanese History at Princeton University.Princeton University, Office of Communications"Professor Marius Berthus Jansen, sc ...

(1989) * Vol. 6. ''The Twentieth Century,'' edited by Peter Duus (1988)Vol. 6. ''The Twentieth Century,'
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References

* Hall, John Whitney. (1988–1999). ''The Cambridge History of Japan.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
OCLC 17483588
* Macfarlane, Alan
"'Japan' in an English Mirror,"
''Modern Asian Studies,''Volume 31, Issue 4 (Oct., 1997), 763–806.

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* Cambridge University Press
Cambridge history online
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