books.google.com - Beginning in late Edo, the Japanese faced a rapidly and irreversibly changing world in which industrialization, westernization, and internationalization was exerting pressure upon an entrenched traditional culture. The Japanese themselves felt threatened by Western powers, with their sense of superiority...http://books.google.com/books/about/Inexorable_Modernity.html?id=bMMusu0O4zAC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareInexorable Modernity
