Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Japan

Series Editor: Miriam Kingsberg Kadia (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)

This series publishes original research in the field of modern Japanese history. It includes monographs, edited collections, annotated translations, and other types of publications. In pursuit of the best boundary-breaking scholarship, it is only loosely contained by its chronological, geographic, and disciplinary parameters. It welcomes creative contributions that toy with the confines of the "modern" period or that situate this era within a longer timeframe. It seeks transnational research that is not circumscribed by the borders of the contemporary Japanese nation-state or limited to a source base of Japanese-language materials. It embraces books in every historical subfield (social, cultural, intellectual, political, economic, medical, legal, diplomatic, etc.), as well as works that draw on methodologies employed across the humanities, the social sciences, and more distant fields. The series particularly supports research by junior scholars, independent scholars, scholars working off the tenure track, scholars whose native language is not English, women scholars, and scholars of color.