'The volume covers a variety of topics from gender and the uses of the female body in propaganda posters to economic nationalism and Japanese naval history, and concentrates on the period from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century.' - Nations and Nationalism

• Chapter 1 Rethinking nation and nationalism in Japan, Sandra Wilson; Chapter 2 The politics of pragmatism and pageantry, J. Charles Schencking; Chapter 3 Picturing political space in 1920s and 1930s Japan, Vera Mackie; Chapter 4 Substantiating the nation, Stephen S. Large; Chapter 5 Between samurai and carnival, Stewart Lone; Chapter 6 In a house divided, Elise K. Tipton; Chapter 7 Saving for ‘My Own Good and the Good of the Nation’, Sheldon Garon; Chapter 8 War, commemoration and national identity in modern Japan, 1868–1975, Beatrice Trefalt; Chapter 9 English and nationalism in Japan, Kosaku Yoshino; Chapter 10 Japanese nationalism in comparative perspective, Frank B. Tipton;