Conventional Knowledge in early modern Japan / Mary Elizabeth Berry -- Local autonomy in early Meiji Japan: competing conceptions / Kyu Hyun Kim -- Tanaka Sh*z*'s vision of an alternative constitutional modernity for Japan / Timothy S. George -- A land of milk and honey: rural revitalization in the 1930s / Kerry Smith -- Chisui: creating a sacred domain in early modern and modern Japan / Patricia Sippel -- Taming the iron horse: western locomotive makers and technology transfer in Japan, 1870-1914 / Steven J. Ericson -- Women's rights and the Japanese state, 1880-1925 / Barbara Molony -- Men's place in the women's kingdom: new middle-class fatherhood in TaishÅ Japan / Harald Fuess -- Social networks among the daughters of a Japanese family / Gail Lee Bernstein -- Rethinking Japanese-Chinese cultural relations in the 1930s / See Heng Teow -- Mocking misery: grass-roots satire in defeated Japan / John W. Dower