[Machine Translation] What is required of people today is knowledge of world history and Japanese history that is relevant to the present. How have the world and Japan changed since the Industrial Revolution? The Meiji Restoration, World War I, World War II, postwar reconstruction, the Cold War era, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the world today. Takeshi Goto explains 25 key points of modern and contemporary world and Japanese history in an easy-to-understand manga-like style. This is a book that can be read and understood today only by the author of best-selling books on Japanese and world history.