First published by Princeton University Press in 1982, this volume depicts the conflict and uncertainty that have bedeviled modern Japan. The eighteen contributors explore dissent, secession, and conflict first in the 1850s and 1860s, when the Tokugawa regime gave way to the Meiji government, and then from the end of the Russo-Japanese War through the mid-1920s. Includes an introduction by Tetsuo Najita and concluding chapter by J. Victor Koschmann.

Tetsuo Najita is Robert S. Ingersoll Distringuished Professor Emeritus of History and East Asian Language & Civilization at the University of Chicago.
Victor Koschmann is Professor of History at Cornell University.