Foreword

3-3

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

173-192

<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

231-236