A Brief History of Japan

by David Murray

The Japanese Archipelago
The Japanese People
Myths And Legends
Founding of The Empire
Shotoku Taishi
The Heian Period
The Kamakura Shogunate
Oda Nobunaga
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
The Tokugawa Shogunate
Christianity
Feudalism
Commodore Perry
Revolutionary Preludes
The Empire Restored

203 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 3, 2011

About the author

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David Murray (デイヴィッド・モルレー Deibiddo Marē) was an American educator and government adviser in Meiji period Japan. Murray graduated from Union College in 1852. In 1857-1863, Murray was as principal of The Albany Academy in New York. He was a professor at Rutgers College in New Jersey from 1863 through 1873. In Japan, he was Superintendent of Educational Affairs in the Imperial Ministry of Education from 1873 through 1879.

His many works include Petroleum its History and Properties (1862), Manual of Land Surveying : with Tables (1872), Japanese Education, Introductory chapter (1876), The Story of Japan (1894), The Development of Modern Education in Japan (1904), Japan. Continuing the History to the Close of 1905, with the Provisions of the Treaty of Portsmouth Between Russia and Japan (1906).