Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: Modernization and Japan -- Chapter 2: Civil Religion and Second Modernity in Japan: A Sociological Analysis -- Chapter 3: Japan and the Rise of the Idea of Race: The Meiji-Era Fusion of Foreign and Domestic Constructions -- Chapter 4: The 1922 Japanese Health Insurance Law: Toward a Corporatist Framework -- Chapter 5: Public Health in Occupied Japan Transformed by Statistical Quality Control -- Part II: Identity and Globalization -- Chapter 6: International Issues: Japanese Artists and the Problems with Borders -- Chapter 7: Discourses on Democracy and the (Re)birth of Civil Society, 1945-1952: Mutual Aid and Cooperatist Modernity in Kitakyushu -- Chapter 8: Imagining America: The Origins of Japanese Public Opinion toward the United States in the Cold War -- Chapter 9: Soft Powering Popular Culture: Discourse and Policy Making in Japan's Content Industries -- Chapter 10: Blending Ethnicities: Perceptions of East Asian Identities Today.