Part 1 The Reconstruction Period; Chapter 1 The Restoration Movement; Chapter 2 The Policy of the Restoration Party; Chapter 3 The Abolition of Feudalism; Chapter 4 The Government and its Critics; Chapter 5 The Reconstruction of the Central and Local Governments; Chapter 6 The Growth of Representative Institutions; Chapter 7 Political Issues and Morality; Chapter 8 End of the Reconstruction Period; Part 2 The Parliamentary Regime; Chapter 9 The First Four Years; Chapter 10 The Chino-Japanese War; Chapter 11 Militarism and Clan Government; Chapter 12 The Russo-Japanese War; Chapter 13 Japan on the Continent of Asia; Chapter 14 The End of the Meiji Era; Chapter 15 Political System in Japan;