Gina (SOAS, University of London, UK) Barnes 
State Formation in Japan [PDF ebook] 
Emergence of a 4th-Century Ruling Elite

This volume brings together for the first time a significant body of Professor Barnes » scholarly writing on Japanese early state formation, brought together so that successive topics form a coherent overview of the problems and solutions of ancient Japan. The writings are, in some cases, the only studies of these topics available in English and they differ from the majority of other articles on the subject in being anthropological rather than cultural or historical in nature.