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Featuring an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars, Tumultuous Decade examines Japanese domestic and foreign affairs between 1931 and 1941.

"This book is a business history of a transnational Japanese pharmaceutical company in the early twentieth century, Hoshi Pharmaceuticals, and a commodity history of its involvement in opium, quinine, and consumer medicines in both Japan and its expanding empire."

This volume looks at the history of Japan from a transnational perspective. It brings to the fore the interconnectedness of Japan's history with the wider Asian-Pacific region and the world. This interconnectedness is examined in the volume through the themes of empire, migration, and social movements

The World War I experience -- The idea of a league -- The great debate -- Making the covenant palatable at Paris -- The Geneva years -- The Japanese face at Geneva: Nitobe Inazo and Ishii Kikujiro -- Crisis over Manchuria -- Japan as an outsider -- Epliogue: internationalism and international organization in interwar Japan

Buszynski reviews TENSIONS OF EMPIRE: Japan and Southeast Asia in the Colonial and Postcolonial World by Ken'ichi Goto and edited and with introduction by Paul H. Kratoska.