Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Note on Transliteration and Dates -- Introduction -- 1. 'As a practical object it will be profitable': Design, Industry and Internationalization from the Tokugawa to the Meiji Periods -- 2. '100-yen cultured living': Design, Policy and Commerce in the Early Twentieth Century -- 3. Coffee Sets and Militarism: Design in Empire, War and Occupation -- 4. 'A landscape like a picture book': Design, Society and Economic Growth in Post-War Japan -- 5. 'Generosity and tolerance': Design and the Information Industries in Late Twentieth-Century Japan -- Epilogue -- References -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Photo Acknowledgements -- Index.