Includes bibliographical references and index.

Peopling the Japanese empire: the Koreans in Manchuria and the rhetoric of inclusion / Barbara J. Brooks -- Integrating into Chinese society: a comparison of the Japanese communities of Shanghai and Harbin / Joshua A. Fogel -- Space and aesthetic imagination in some Taishō writings / Elaine Gerbert -- The city and the countryside: competing Taishō "modernities" on gender / Mariko Asano Tamanoi -- Naturalizing nationhood: ideology and practice in early twentieth-century Japan / Julia Adeney Thomas -- Asano Wasaburō and Japanese spiritualism in early twentieth-century Japan / Helen Hardacre -- Becoming Japanese: imperial expansion and identity crises in the early twentieth century / Tessa Morris-Suzuki -- Culture, ethnicity, and the state in early twentieth-century Japan / Kevin M. Doak -- Writing the national narrative: changing attitudes toward nation-building among Japanese writers, 1900-1930 / Roy Starrs -- The Bunriha the problem of "tradition" for modernist architecture in Japan, 1920-1928 / Jonathan M. Reynolds -- Defining the modern nation in Japanese popular song, 1914-1932 / Christine R. Yano -- Media culture in Taishō Osaka/ Jeffrey E. Hanes -- Zaikai and Taishō Demokurashii, 1900-1930 / Lonny E. Carlile -- Fashioning a culture of diligence and thrift: savings and frugality campaigns in Japan, 1900-1931 / Sheldon Garon -- Visions of women and the new society in conflict: Yamakawa Kikue versus Takamure Itsue / E. Patricia Tsurumi -- Broadcasting in Korea, 1924-1937: colonial modernity and cultural hegemony / Michael E. Robinson.