Contents: A monarch for modern Japan / John Whitney Hall -- Political modernization and the Meiji Genrō / Roger F. Hackett -- Fukuzawa Yukichi : the philosophical foundations of Meiji nationalism / Albert M. Craig -- Modernization and foreign policy in Meiji Japan / Marius B. Jansen -- War and modernization / Nobutaka Ike -- Popular political participation and political development in Japan : the rural level / Kurt Steiner -- Elections and political modernization in prewar Japan / Robert A. Scalapino -- The development of interest groups and the pattern of political modernization in Japan / Takeshi Ishida -- Structural and functional differentiation in the political modernization of Japan / Bernard S. Silberman -- Law and political modernization in Japan / Dan Fenno Henderson -- Decision-making in the Japanese government : a study of Ringisei / Kiyoaki Tsuji -- Reflections on the allied occupation and planned political change in Japan / Robert E. Ward -- The politics of Japan's modernization : the autonomy of choice / Ardath W. Burks.