Judith Vitale, Ph.D. (2007) is a lecturer in history at the University of Zurich. She is the author of The Historical Writing of the Mongol Invasions in Japan (Harvard University Asia Center, 2024). Oleg Benesch, Ph.D. (2011), University of British Columbia, is Professor of History at the University of York. He is the author of Inventing the Way of the Samurai: Nationalism, Internationalism, and Bushido in Modern Japan (Oxford University Press, 2014) and, with Ran Zwigenberg, Japan’s Castles: Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Miriam Kingsberg Kadia, Ph.D. (2009), University of California at Berkeley, is Professor of History at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is the author of Moral Nation: Modern Japan and Narcotics in Global History (University of California Press, 2014) and Into the Field: Human Scientists of Transwar Japan (Stanford University Press, 2020).

"[A] sweeping, insightful, and in places provocative collection of historical essays that chart the evolution of all that transpires when populations elect to imbibe or reject the varying substances that could be labeled as ‘drugs’." - Paul Christensen, Japanese Studies 12 July 2024, DOI: 10.1080/10371397.2024.2374474

Judith Vitale, Ph.D. (2007) is a lecturer in history at the University of Zurich. She is the author of The Historical Writing of the Mongol Invasions in Japan (Harvard University Asia Center, 2024). Oleg Benesch, Ph.D. (2011), University of British Columbia, is Professor of History at the University of York. He is the author of Inventing the Way of the Samurai: Nationalism, Internationalism, and Bushido in Modern Japan (Oxford University Press, 2014) and, with Ran Zwigenberg, Japan’s Castles: Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Miriam Kingsberg Kadia, Ph.D. (2009), University of California at Berkeley, is Professor of History at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is the author of Moral Nation: Modern Japan and Narcotics in Global History (University of California Press, 2014) and Into the Field: Human Scientists of Transwar Japan (Stanford University Press, 2020).

"[A] sweeping, insightful, and in places provocative collection of historical essays that chart the evolution of all that transpires when populations elect to imbibe or reject the varying substances that could be labeled as ‘drugs’." - Paul Christensen, Japanese Studies 12 July 2024, DOI: 10.1080/10371397.2024.2374474

Judith Vitale, Ph.D. (2007) is a lecturer in history at the University of Zurich. She is the author of The Historical Writing of the Mongol Invasions in Japan (Harvard University Asia Center, 2024). Oleg Benesch, Ph.D. (2011), University of British Columbia, is Professor of History at the University of York. He is the author of Inventing the Way of the Samurai: Nationalism, Internationalism, and Bushido in Modern Japan (Oxford University Press, 2014) and, with Ran Zwigenberg, Japan’s Castles: Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Miriam Kingsberg Kadia, Ph.D. (2009), University of California at Berkeley, is Professor of History at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is the author of Moral Nation: Modern Japan and Narcotics in Global History (University of California Press, 2014) and Into the Field: Human Scientists of Transwar Japan (Stanford University Press, 2020).

"[A] sweeping, insightful, and in places provocative collection of historical essays that chart the evolution of all that transpires when populations elect to imbibe or reject the varying substances that could be labeled as ‘drugs’." - Paul Christensen, Japanese Studies 12 July 2024, DOI: 10.1080/10371397.2024.2374474