...Tomoko Seto This article examines narrative manipulation of police violence involving journalists, the police, and activists in late Meiji Japan to explore the political potential of popular media. I scrutinize the so-called Red Flag Incident of 1908, in which fourteen socialists were arrested...

... history includ- ing “Reassessing the Dangers of the ‘New Woman’ in Early Taishô Japan,” positions (2011) and “Völkerpsychologie and the Appropriation of ‘Spirit’ in Meiji Japan,” Modern Intellectual History (2010). Jon D. Rossini is associate professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance...

.... This is similar to the state’s treatment of the Ainu population in Hokkaido beginning in 1869. For an analysis of settler colonialism in Hokkaido during the early Meiji period, refer to Hirano, “Thanatopolitics in the Making of Japan’s Hokkaido.” 13. One of their first acts was to send doctors from...

... lineage and its subsequent natural right to rule this divine nation through historical projects.13 Emperor Meiji granted a written order to the court noble Sanjo¯ Sanetomi (1837 – 91) to write the history of Japan beginning in 887, where the last book of the series Rikkokushi (The Six National...

...- ical frontiers of the Arab Middle East. As the Ottoman Empire disintegrated, intel- lectuals in the Middle East were attracted to ideas of reform and nationhood in Europe and in Meiji Japan. Due to our particular expertise, we looked primarily...

... for and by women. In a very different setting, Tomoko Seto shows how, nearly a century later, police authorities used violent means to contain Japanese anarchist and socialist 4  Radical History Review women protesting during the 1908 Red Flag Incident in late Meiji Japan. Dubbed “anarchist...

...Masao Nishikawa 2005 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization,Inc. 2005 REFLECTIONS A Specter Is Still Haunting: The Specter of World History Masao Nishikawa Historical research and writing using “modern” methods began in Japan after the so-called Meiji Restoration (1868...

... citizenship forced many of them to make alliances with the real and imagined foes of U.S. elites. This list began with Native American nations and included Britain, Haiti, Mexico, the Soviet Union, and Japan.6 Like the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, the Meiji Restoration in Japan in 1868, which...

...Tomomi Yamaguchi This article investigates the use of online communication and social media in connection with the recently emerged right-wing, xenophobic movement in contemporary Japan. Since the early 2000s there has been a surge in xenophobic and racist discourse on the Internet, tied...

...Erik Esselstrom This essay reflects on the experience of a remarkable Japanese woman, Hasegawa Teru, whose life story can help us both historicize and contextualize the emergence of a human-rights discourse in modern Japan and connect it to the struggle of the social and political Left in Japanese...

... about a peasant woman’s effort to reinstate the Meiji in Japan is one such work, Susan Mann’s book on Chinese women in the eighteenth century another. No course discussion would be complete without some reference to student responses. We want to mention a few in closing. Some came as a surprise...

... Meiji Japan, the state is conceived in terms of the family, it is something other than a microcosm or appendage of society. What distinguishes the paradigm under discussion, though, is the bloc-like character imparted to each category and the antago- nistic relationship assumed to exist...

... the deliberations in London, with the revolutions in both countries often cited, alongside the more successful example of the Meiji Restoration of 1867 in Japan and the revolutionary RRHR92-08-Bonakdarian.inddHR92-08-Bonakdarian.indd 112626...