Table of Contents

Introduction; 1 A Transnational History of Japanese Nationalism: Pan-Asianism and Islam, 1900-1945; 2 Japan and Islam Policy During the 1930s; 3 The Legacy of the War and the World of Islam in Japanese Pan-Asian Discourse: Wakabayashi Han’s Kaikyō Sekai to Nihon; 4 The Pilgrimage as International Relations: Japanese Pilgrims to Mecca between 1909 and 1938; 5 Maps in Our Mind: Chinese Coins, the Asian Muslim Network, the Japanese and the Transnational; 6 A Transnational History of Revolution and Nationalism: Encounters between Japanese Asianists, the Turkish Revolution, and the World of Islam; 7 Japanese Interest in the Ottoman Empire; 8 A fin de siècle Japanese Romantic in Istanbul: The Life of Yamada Torajirō and His Toruko Gakan; 9 The Impact of the Russo-Japanese War on Ottoman Turkey; 10 Meiji Elite and Western Culture; 11 The Anguish of Civilized Behavior: The Use of Western Cultural Forms in the Everyday Lives of the Meiji Japanese and the Ottoman Turks During the Nineteenth Century; 12 A Comparison of Turkish and Japanese Attitudes Toward Modern National Identity; 13 Remarks on the Modernization of Japan and Turkey in the 18th and 19th Centuries; 14 Commentary for the General Discussion on Japan in a Comparative Perspective; 15 Reflections on Japanese and Turkish Modernization and Global History; 16 The Study of Local Administration in Early Modern Japan: The Case of Nakano Tenryō During the Tokugawa Period, 1637-1868; 17 The Remembrance of the 1871 Nakano Uprising as a Contemporary Trauma in Village Life Today; 18 The People of Tokugawa Japan: The State of the Field in Early Modern Social/Economic History; Index