Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-310) and index.
Tradition: past/present culture and modern Japanese history / Stephen Vlastos -- The invention of Japanese-style labor management / Andrew Gordon -- The invention of wa and the transformation of the image of Prince Shōtoku in modern Japan / Itō Kimio -- Weak legal consciousness as invented tradition / Frank K. Upham -- The Japanese village: imagined, real, contested / Irwin Scheiner -- Agrarianism without tradition: the radical critique of prewar Japanese modernity / Stephen Vlastos -- Colonizing Manchuria: the making of an imperial myth / Louise Young -- It takes a village: internationalization and nostalgia in postwar Japan / Jennifer Robertson -- Chihō: Yanagita Kunio's 'Japan' / Hashimoto Mitsuru -- Figuring the folk: history, poetics, and representation / H.D. Harootunian -- The invention of the martial arts: Kanō Jigorō and Kōdōkan judo / Inoue Shun -- The invention of the yokozuna and the championship system, or, Futahaguro's revenge / Lee A. Thompson -- At home in the Meiji period: inventing Japanese domesticity / Jordan Sand -- The cafe waitress serving modern Japan / Miriam Silverberg -- Constructing Shinano: the invention of a neo-traditional region / Kären Wigen -- 'Doubly cruel': Marxism and the presence of the past in Japanese capitalism / Andrew E. Barshay -- The invention of Edo / Carol Gluck -- Afterword: revisiting the tradition/modernity binary / Dipesh Chakrabarty