Foreword
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Introduction
5 - 9
<Part ⅠTHE DRIVE TO BE ON TIME: The Contribution of Railroads>Railway Systems and Time Consciousness in Modern Japan
13 - 38
<Part ⅠTHE DRIVE TO BE ON TIME: The Contribution of Railroads>The Time Revolution of the Railways in the 1920s: The Impact of the Changeover to Automatic Couplers
39 - 62
<Part ⅡPUNCTUALITY AND EFFICIENCY: The Development of New Work Managament>Time in an Early Modern Local Community
65 - 78
<Part ⅡPUNCTUALITY AND EFFICIENCY: The Development of New Work Managament>Two Time Systems, Three Patterns of Working Hours
79 - 97
<Part ⅡPUNCTUALITY AND EFFICIENCY: The Development of New Work Managament>Punctuality and the Introduction of Scientific Management to Japan
99 - 118
<Part ⅢEVERY MINUTE COUNTS: Temporal Discipline in Schools and in the Household>Teaching Punctuality : Inside and Outside the Primary School
121 - 133
<Part ⅢEVERY MINUTE COUNTS: Temporal Discipline in Schools and in the Household>Hani Motoko and the Spread of Time Discipline into the Household
135 - 148
<Part IV THE FORMATION OF A MODERN TIMEFRAME>Time in Saijiki
151 - 172
<Part IV THE FORMATION OF A MODERN TIMEFRAME>The Spread of Timepieces in the Meiji Period
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<Part V WHITHER TIME?>Time and Space in the Farming Village : A Time Geographical Approach
195 - 215
<Part V WHITHER TIME?>The Enigma of “Time is Money”
217 - 230
<Part V WHITHER TIME?>Suggested Readings on the History of Time in Japan
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