Explores Sino-Japanese relations through encounters that took place between each country's people living at the margins of empire.

A riveting account of the role of Americans in the evolution of the Tokyo underworld in the years since 1945. In the ashes of postwar Japan lay a gold mine for

"A grandson’s photo album. Old postcards. English porcelain. A granite headstone. These are just a few of the material objects that help reconstruct the histo

By the end of World War II, hundreds of thousands of young men in the Japanese colonies, in particular Taiwan and Korea, had expressed their loyalty to the empi

Revolution Goes East is an intellectual history that applies a novel global perspective to the classic story of the rise of communism and the various reactions