Considered a doyen of Meiji studies, particularly in the field of the newspaper press in Japan, former journalist Jim Huffman and H. Orth Hirt Professor of History [Emeritus] at Wittenberg University, was recently honoured (2017) with the Distinguished Service Award by the Association of Asian Studies (AAS), marking his outstanding scholarship and service in the field of Asian Studies. Huffman is the author of eight acclaimed books, including Creating a Public: People and Press in Meiji Japan, A Yankee in Meiji Japan : The Crusading Journalist Edward H. House, Japan: A History in Documents and most recently Down and Out in Late Meiji Japan.

• Foreword Introduction Part I: Media History 1. Managing the News: Fukuchi Gen’ichir? Attempts to Balance Two Worlds 2. Japan’s First Newspaper Law: The Emergence of the Press as an Independent Voice 3. Freedom and the Press in Meiji-Taish? Japan 4. Commercialization and the Changing World of the Mid-Meiji Press 5. The Meiji Roots and Contemporary Practice of the Japanese Press 6. In Retrospect (Creating a Public: People and Press in Meiji Japan) 7. Edward Howard House: In the Service of Meiji Japan 8. That ‘Naughty Yankee Boy,’ Edward H. House and Meiji Japan’s Struggle for Equality 9. Edward H. House: Questions of Meaning and Influence 10. Selected Writings of E.H. House: Introduction 11. Introduction (Japanese Episodes) Part II: Society, Culture & Environment 12. The Faces of Meiji 13. Looking Both Ways: The Use of Meiji Travel Literature in the Classroom 14. Nation v. People: Ashio and Japan’s First Environmental Crisis 15. Introduction (Down and Out in Late Meiji Japan) 16. Poverty in Late Meiji Japan: It Mattered Where You Lived 17. The Idioms of Contemporary Japan XI: Kinmyaku-Jinmyaku 18. Japanese Society in the Twentieth Century Part III: Democracy, Government & Nationalism 19. Restoration and Revolution 20. Meiji 1–10: Takeoff Time for Modern Japan 21. The Popular Rights Debate: Political or Ideological? 22. Nationalism and the Taming of Japan’s Early Twentieth Century Press 23. Yasukuni Shrine on the Silver Screen: Spirits of the State Part IV: Selected Reviews 24. Alistar Swale, The Meiji Restoration: Monarchism, Mass Communication and Conservative Revolution 25. Eiko Siniawer, Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists: The Violent Politics of Modern Japan 26. David L. Howell, Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan 27. Sarah Thal, Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods: The Politics of a Pilgrimage Site in Japan, 1573–1912 28. Alexis Dudden, Japan’s Colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power 29. Donald Keene, Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World 30. Robert B. Marks, The Origins of the Modern World 31. Marius B. Jansen, The Making of Modern Japan 32. Joseph Henning, Outposts of Civilization: Race, Religion, and the Formative Years of American-Japanese Relations 33. Yoshitake Oka, Five Political Leaders of Modern Japan: It? Hirobumi, ?kuma Shigenobu, Hara Takashi, Inukai Tsuyoshi, and Saionji Kimmochi Notes Index