Description: An intimate ethnography of how Japan's state bureaucrats made political anxiety into a target, technique, and consequence of cultural administration.
Review Quotes: "White's work underscores that in furthering our understandings of Japanese society as a whole, we cannot be beholden to dominant narratives and groups. We must recognize the diversity of experience and practice that state narratives often elide and obfuscate."--John Ostermiller, Pacific Affairs