Loves and Loyalties in Imperial Japan

Mark A. Jones is Professor and Department Chair of History at Central Connecticut State University, USA. He is the author of Children as Treasures: Childhood and the Middle Class in Early Twentieth Century Japan (2010).Robert T. Tierney is Professor in East Asian Languages and Cultures at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is the author of Monster of the Twentieth Century: Kotoku Shusui and Japan’s First Anti-Imperialist Movement (2015), amongst others.Miriam Wattles is Professor Emerita at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. Her books include The Life and Afterlives of Hanabusa Itchô, Artist-Rebel of Edo (2013).

These wide-ranging essays examine the dynamic expression of love and loyalty through analysis of film, literature, architecture, law, philosophy, material culture, and more. A valuable contribution to the scholarship on national identity, empire, and family structure in modern Japan. Deeply researched and eye-opening.

• Introduction: Miriam Wattles, Mark A. Jones and Robert T. Tierney (University of California, Central Connecticut State University and University of Illinois, USA)Part I: Distant Attachments: Japan in the World 1. Populist Confucianism, Affect, and Progressive Politics in Imperial Japan: Kotoku Shusui’s “Empathy” and the Reach of the Heimin Group, Robert T. Tierney (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)2. Why the Raging Winds and Waves? Loyalty between Nationalism and Internationalism in Imperial Japan, Michael B. Pass (Global Affairs Canada)3. The Emperor not as sovereign but as “Center of Adoration” in Imperial Japan, Jeff DuBois (College of St. Benedict, USA)4. For Jesus and Japan: Revisiting the Bells and Fumi -e of Nagasaki, Gwyn McClelland (University of New England)Part II: Close Attachments: Love, Family and Home 5. Intimate Spaces and Imperial Residences: Architecture Remaking the Modern Marriage, Alice Y. Tseng (Boston University, USA)6. New Emotions in Theater: Kikuchi Kan’s The Return of the Father and Taisho Humanism, Ayumi Fujioka (Sugiyama Jogakuen University, Nagoya, Japan)7. A Healthy Emotion: Romantic Love in Taisho Japan, Mark A. Jones (Central Connecticut State University, USA)8. Rabu rejected, and then...? Okamoto Ippei’s Extraordinary Family and his Anyone’s Life (1921-29), Miriam Wattles (U.C. Santa Barbara, USA)Part III: Conflicting Attachments: Fraught Loyalties (and love) 9.. A Handmade Tale: Thousand-Stitch Belts and Affective Mobilization in Wartime Japan (1937-1945), Lee K. Pennington (U.S. Naval Academy)10. Bushido, Nansensu Loyalty, and Period Film: Itami Mansaku’s Akanishi Kakita (1936), Naoki Yamamoto, (U.C. Santa Barbara, USA)11. Shrines, the Emperor, and two Urakami Catholic Youth’s Dilemma: Pained Memories of Forced Loyalty in Nagasaki, Gwyn McClelland (University of New England, Australia)12. Law, Love, and Leftover Women: Korean-Japanese Intermarriage, 1930-80, Insil Kang (Seoul National University, South Korea)Epilogue, Miriam Wattles, Mark A. Jones and Robert T. Tierney (University of California, Central Connecticut State University and University of Illinois, USA)Afterword: Mark D. Steinberg (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)