Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Introduction xi
5. Part I: Media History
6. 1. Managing the News: Fukuchi Gen’ichirō Attempts to Balance Two Worlds 1
7. 2. Japan’s First Newspaper Law: The Emergence of the Press as an Independent Voice 27
8. 3. Freedom and the Press in Meiji-Taishō Japan 40
9. 4. Commercialization and the Changing World of the Mid-Meiji Press 65
10. 5. The Meiji Roots and Contemporary Practice of the Japanese Press 79
11. 6. In Retrospect (Creating a Public: People and Press in Meiji Japan) 98
12. 7. Edward Howard House: In the Service of Meiji Japan 109
13. 8. That ‘Naughty Yankee Boy,’ Edward H. House and Meiji Japan’s Struggle for Equality 128
14. 9. Edward H. House: Questions of Meaning and Influence 146
15. 10. Selected Writings of E.H. House: Introduction 161
16. 11. Introduction (Japanese Episodes) 171
17. Part II: Society, Culture & Environment
18. 12. The Faces of Meiji 181
19. 13. Looking Both Ways: The Use of Meiji Travel Literature in the Classroom 191
20. 14. Nation v. People: Ashio and Japan’s First Environmental Crisis 202
21. 15. Introduction (Down and Out in Late Meiji Japan) 211
22. 16. Poverty in Late Meiji Japan: It Mattered Where You Lived 240
23. 17. The Idioms of Contemporary Japan XI: Kinmyaku-Jinmyaku 250
24. 18. Japanese Society in the Twentieth Century 262
25. Part III: Democracy, Government & Nationalism
26. 19. Restoration and Revolution 275
27. 20. Meiji 1–10: Takeoff Time for Modern Japan 294
28. 21. The Popular Rights Debate: Political or Ideological? 302
29. 22. Nationalism and the Taming of Japan’s Early Twentieth Century Press 309
30. 23. Yasukuni Shrine on the Silver Screen: Spirits of the State 331
31. Part IV: Selected Reviews
32. 24. Alistar Swale, The Meiji Restoration: Monarchism, Mass Communication and Conservative Revolution 339
33. 25. Eiko Siniawer, Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists: The Violent Politics of Modern Japan 343
34. 26. David L. Howell, Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan 346
35. 27. Sarah Thal, Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods: The Politics of a Pilgrimage Site in Japan, 1573–1912 348
36. 28. Alexis Dudden, Japan’s Colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power 356
37. 29. Donald Keene, Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World 359
38. 30. Robert B. Marks, The Origins of the Modern World 362
39. 31. Marius B. Jansen, The Making of Modern Japan 364
40. 32. Joseph Henning, Outposts of Civilization: Race, Religion, and the Formative Years of American-Japanese Relations 367
41. 33. Yoshitake Oka, Five Political Leaders of Modern Japan: Itō Hirobumi, Ōkuma Shigenobu, Hara Takashi, Inukai Tsuyoshi, and Saionji Kimmochi 370
42. Notes 375
43. Index 415