Father and son : at the apex of eighteenth-century culture
Date Munehiro in exile (Jitoku-ō) : intellectual pilgrimage of an Edo dignitary
Meiji restoration : into the age of revolution and gun smoke
Giant wings broken : the rise and fall of a Prussian-style military state
A bush warbler in winter : involved in Tosa's adventure
Burning the midnight oil again : study during imprisonment
Burning the midnight oil a third time : in a Prussian-style constitution appropriate?
The origins of Japanese democracy : building a modern nation-state
The dawn of constitutional government : a Samurai democracy to be proud of
First setback for the parliamentary democracy : bloody intervention in the election
Revision of treaties : freedom from half a century of humiliation
Rivalry on the Korean Peninsula : one imperialism vs. another
The Donghak peasant rebellion : is Korea a tributary to Qing China?
The eve of the first Sino-Japanese War : tenacity
A war of diplomacy : keeping the Western powers at bay
The Battle of Pungdo : dawn of an empire
Japan sails to victory : China's strategic dilemma
The final phase of the ware : a race against time
The treaty of Shimonoseki : Li Hongzhang in Japan
The Tripartite Intervention : an unavoidable concession
Mutsu's death : fighting for democracy to the last.