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1. Martial Arts and the Body Politic in Meiji Japan

   Martialing the National Body

   By Denis Gainty

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   This book shows how the movement to define and popularize Japanese martial arts in the late Meiji period brought Japanese bodies, Japanese nationalisms, and the Japanese state into sustained contact and dynamic engagement with one another. Gainty’s argument challenges dominant readings of modern...

   To Be Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge