Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface. Policing Ideological Threats, Then and Now ix
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Kokutai and the Aporias of Imperial Sovereignty: The Passage of the Peace Preservation Law in 1925 21
7. 2. Transcriptions of Power: Repression and Rehabilitation in the Early Peace Preservation Law Apparatus, 1925–1933 49
8. 3. Apparatuses of Subjection: The Rehabilitation of Thought Criminals in the Early 1930s 77
9. 4. Nurturing the Ideological Avowal: Toward the Codification of Tenkō in 1936 113
10. 5. The Ideology of Conversion: Tenkō on the Eve of Total War 145
11. Epilogue. The Legacies of the Thought Rehabilitation System in Postwar Japan 179
12. Notes 185
13. Bibliography 261
14. Index 281