Lost and Found: Recovering Regional Identity in Imperial Japan

by Hiraku Shimoda

Lost and Found offers a new understanding of modern Japanese regionalism by revealing the tense and volatile historical relationship between region and nation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Aizu, a star-crossed region in present-day Fukushima prefecture, becomes a case study for how one locale was estranged from nationhood for its treasonous blunder in the Meiji Restoration, yet eventually found a useful place within...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674492013
• ISBN13: 9780674492011
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"