The Xenophile Historian

Contents

(and malcontents)

Chapter 1: The Formation of Korean and Japanese Civilizations

Korea Before 668, Japan Before 710

	Introduction to Korea
	Dangun
	Later Gojoseon and Jin
	Japan: How It All Began
	Korea: The Samhan (Proto-Three Kingdoms) Period
	Japan: The Yayoi Culture
	Japan: The Kofun Period
	Korea: The Three Kingdoms
	Japan: The Asuka Period

Chapter 2: Medieval Korea and Japan

Korea from 668 to 1637, Japan from 710 to 1603

	Balhae
	Japan: The Nara Period
	Silla & Sinicization
	Ultracivilization: The Heian Era
	Goryeo: Civilization For the Few
	Japan: The Kamakura Shogunate
	Korea: The Joseon Dynasty
	Japan: The Ashikaga Shogunate
	European Contact
	The Reunification of Japan

Chapter 3: Closed and Opened Societies

Korea from 1637 to 1910, Japan from 1603 to 1912

	Japan: The Tokugawa Shogunate
	Korea: The Hermit Kingdom
	Perry Opens Japan
	The Meiji Restoration
	The First Sino-Japanese War
	The Russo-Japanese War
	The End of the Korean Empire

Chapter 4: The War-Ravaged Years

Korea from 1910 to 1953, Japan from 1912 to 1945

	Korea: Pax Japonica
	Japan: The Militants Take Over
	World War II
	China
	Siberia or the Pacific?
	The Rise and Fall of Tojo
	Iwo Jima and Okinawa
	The Grim Endgame
	The Creation of North and South Korea
	The Korean War

Chapter 5: Northeast Asia Today

Korea since 1953, Japan since 1945

	Japan, Incorporated
	South Korea: Growing Pains
	Japan's Lost Decades
	South Korea: The Sixth Time is the Charm
	The Bizarre Land of North Korea

Click here for a map of Northeast Asia (160 KB, will open in a separate window).

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