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Index
Cover
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Prologue Japan Before 1853
Chapter 1: 1853–1868 Introduction of Railway Technology, the Shōgunal Railway Proposal, and the First Railway Concession
Chapter 2: 1869–1870 Intrigue, Influence, and Incompetence as Railway Planning Begins in Earnest
Chapter 3: 1870–1872 Building the First Railway
Chapter 4: 1873–1877 Kōbe to Kyōto
Chapter 5: 1877–1884 Ōtsu, Tsuruga, Nagahama, and East to the Nōbi Plain
Chapter 6: 1880–1895 Extending and Integrating the System
Chapter 7: 1895–1905 The Second Railway Mania and the Russo-Japanese War
Chapter 8: 1906–1912 Nationalization and Self-sufficiency
Epilogue: 1913–1914 Tōkyō Station
Appendix
Original Metropolitan Terminii of Principal Meiji Era Non-Government Railways
Workshop Locations
Gauge Equivalents and Representative Lines
IJGR Locomotive Numbering Schemes 1872–1909
Railway Shamon
Meiji-Era Locomotive Naming
Head and Tail Lamp and Disk Codes
Meiji-Era Liveries
Correspondence Enclosing the Portman Grant
Sir Harry Parkes’ Address at the Ōsaka–Kyōto Opening
Charter of the Japan Railway Company
Railways by Region
Western Sources for Rolling Stock Drawings
Dramatis Personae
Japanese Railway Lexicon
Japanese Geographic Lexicon
Bibliography
Photo Credits
Footnotes
Index
Acknowledgments
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