PREFACE -- CHAPTER ONE REPRESENTING THE PEOPLE AS A NATION -- Contemporary Nationalism Theory: What is Nationalism and Who are the Nation? -- Theoretical Influences on Japanese Discourse on the Nation -- Contemporary Japanese Theories on Nationalism -- CHAPTER TWO THE PRECONDITIONS OF JAPANESE NATIONALISM -- The Bakumatsu Years and the Preconditions of National Identity -- Creating a Public and Building a State in Early Meiji -- I. Mitsukuri Rinsh and the Legal Theory of "Minken" -- II. Miyazaki Mury and the Concept of "Minzoku" -- III. Mitsukuri, Miyazaki and Japanese Nationalist Discourse -- CHAPTER THREE TENNŌ -- The Monarch as Liberator of the Japanese People -- Monarchy and the Moral Nation -- The Monarch as Emperor (Kōtei) -- The Tennō as Symbol of the Nation -- CHAPTER FOURS HAKAI -- Coming to Terms with Society in Meiji Japan -- Constructing Society, Conceiving of Shakai -- Society as a Problem -- Taisho Sociology and the Problem of the "People" -- Postwar Japan and Shakai -- CHAPTER FIVE KOKUMIN -- Civilization and Nationalism, 1868-1890 -- I. Meiji Kokumin Aesthetics -- II. Meiji Kokumin Theology -- III. Meiji Kokumin Political Theory -- From Political to Cultural Nationalism, 1890-1945 -- The Postwar Return of the Kokumin, 1945 to the Present -- CHAPTER SIX MINZOKU -- Minzoku and Empire -- Minzoku and Liberal Political Theory -- Minzoku and War -- Minzoku and the Postwar Nation -- CHAPTER SEVEN AFTERWORD: THE PLACE OF THE NATION IN JAPAN TODAY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.