Description: This book explores love and loyalty in Imperial Japan between 1900 and 1950, arguing that an emotional revolution occurred during this time.
Brief description: Mark A. Jones is Professor and Department Chair of History at Central Connecticut State University, USA. His interests span pre-modern and modern Japanese history, and he is the author of Children as Treasures: Childhood and the Middle Class in Early Twentieth Century Japan (2010).
Review Quotes: "These wide-ranging essays examine the dynamic expression of love and loyalty through analysis of film, literature, architecture, law, philosophy, material culture, and more. A valuable contribution to the scholarship on national identity, empire, and family structure in modern Japan. Deeply researched and eye-opening." --Diane Wei Lewis, Washington University in St. Louis, USA