Mirror of modernity : invented traditions of modern Japan

Tradition: past/present culture and modern Japanese history / Stephen Vlastos -- The invention of Japanese-style labor management / Andrew Gordon -- Theinvention of wa and the transformation of the image of Prince Shotoku in modernJapan / Ito Kimio -- Weak legal consciousness as invented tradition / Frank K. Upham -- The Japanese village: imagined, real, contested / Irwin Scheiner -- Agrarianism without tradition: the radical critique of prewar Japanese modernity / Stephen Vlastos -- Colonizing Manchuria: the making of an imperial myth / LouiseYoung -- It takes a village: internationalization and nostalgia in postwar Japan / Jennifer Robertson -- Chiho: Yanagita Kunio's 'Japan' / Hashimoto Mitsuru --Figuring the folk: history, poetics, and representation / H.D. Harootunian -- The invention of the martial arts: Kano Jigoro and Kodokan judo / Inoue Shun -- The invention of the yokozuna and the championship system, or, Futahaguro's revenge / Lee A. Thompson -- At home in the Meiji period: inventing Japanese