Foreword
Introduction
Part I: Media History
1. Managing the News: Fukuchi Gen’ichir? Attempts to Balance Two Worlds
2. Japan’s First Newspaper Law: The Emergence of the Press as an Independent Voice
3. Freedom and the Press in Meiji-Taish? Japan
4. Commercialization and the Changing World of the Mid-Meiji Press
5. The Meiji Roots and Contemporary Practice of the Japanese Press
6. In Retrospect (Creating a Public: People and Press in Meiji Japan)
7. Edward Howard House: In the Service of Meiji Japan
8. That ‘Naughty Yankee Boy,’ Edward H. House and Meiji Japan’s Struggle for Equality
9. Edward H. House: Questions of Meaning and Influence
10. Selected Writings of E.H. House: Introduction
11. Introduction (Japanese Episodes)
Part II: Society, Culture & Environment
12. The Faces of Meiji
13. Looking Both Ways: The Use of Meiji Travel Literature in the Classroom
14. Nation v. People: Ashio and Japan’s First Environmental Crisis
15. Introduction (Down and Out in Late Meiji Japan)
16. Poverty in Late Meiji Japan: It Mattered Where You Lived
17. The Idioms of Contemporary Japan XI: Kinmyaku-Jinmyaku
18. Japanese Society in the Twentieth Century Part III: Democracy, Government & Nationalism
19. Restoration and Revolution
20. Meiji 1–10: Takeoff Time for Modern Japan
21. The Popular Rights Debate: Political or Ideological?
22. Nationalism and the Taming of Japan’s Early Twentieth Century Press
23. Yasukuni Shrine on the Silver Screen: Spirits of the State Part IV: Selected Reviews
24. Alistar Swale, The Meiji Restoration: Monarchism, Mass Communication and Conservative Revolution
25. Eiko Siniawer, Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists: The Violent Politics of Modern Japan
26. David L. Howell, Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan
27. Sarah Thal, Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods: The Politics of a Pilgrimage Site in Japan, 1573–1912
28. Alexis Dudden, Japan’s Colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power
29. Donald Keene, Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World
30. Robert B. Marks, The Origins of the Modern World
31. Marius B. Jansen, The Making of Modern Japan
32. Joseph Henning, Outposts of Civilization: Race, Religion, and the Formative Years of American-Japanese Relations
33. Yoshitake Oka, Five Political Leaders of Modern Japan: It? Hirobumi, ?kuma Shigenobu, Hara Takashi, Inukai Tsuyoshi, and Saionji Kimmochi
Notes
Index