Featuring an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars, Tumultuous Decade examines Japanese domestic and foreign affairs between 1931 and 1941.

Part I: Economics, Culture, Society and Identity

Chapter 1: Zaikai’s Perception of and Orientation to the United States - Masato Kimura (Shibusawa Eiichi Memorial Foundation)

Chapter 2: Cultural Internationalism and Japan’s Wartime Empire: The Turns of the Kokusai Bunka Shink¿kai - Jessamyn R. Abel (Pennsylvania State University)

Chapter 3: Japanese Pan-Asianism through the Mirror of Pan-Islamism - Cemil Aydin (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Chapter 4: Emperor, Family and Modernity: The 1940 Passage of the National Eugenics Law - Sumiko Otsubo (Metropolitan State University)

Part II: The Empire and Imperial Concerns

Chapter 5: Strengthening and Expanding Japan through Social Work in Colonial Taiwan - Evan Dawley (U.S. Department of State)

Chapter 6: Between Collaboration and Conflict: State and Society in Wartime Korea - Jun Uchida (Stanford University)

Chapter 7: The Thought War: Public Diplomacy by Japan's Immigrants in the U.S. - Yuka Fujioka (Kwansei Gakuin University)

Part III: High Diplomacy and the Statesmen

Chapter 8: Meiji Diplomacy in the Early 1930s: Uchida K¿sai, Manchuria and Post-withdrawal Foreign Policy - Rustin Gates (Bradley University)

Chapter 9: Japan’s Diplomatic Gamble for Autonomy: Rethinking Matsuoka Y¿suke’s Diplomacy - Satoshi Hattori (Osaka University)

Chapter 10: Dissembling Diplomatist: Admiral Toyoda Teijir¿ and the Politics of Japanese Security - Peter Mauch (University of Western Sydney)

Chapter 11: “No Choice but to Rise”: Togo Shigenori and Japan’s Decision for War - Tosh Minohara (K¿be University)

Edited by Masato Kimura and Tosh Minohara