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CONTENTS

List of Illustrations and Table

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART ONE: PREMODERN PERIOD

1. Nasty Boys or Obedient Children?: Childhood and Relative Autonomy in Medieval Japanese Monasteries

Or Porath

2. Growing Up Manly: Male Samurai Childhood in Late Edo-Era Tosa

Luke S. Roberts

3. For the Love of Children: Practice, Affect, and Subjectivities in Hirata Atsutane’s Household

Anne Walthall

PART TWO: EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY

4. Consumer Consumption for Children: Conceptions of Childhood in the Work of Taishō-Period Designers

Jinnō Yuki

5. “Children in the Wind”: Reexamining the Golden Age of Childhood Film in Wartime Japan

Harald Salomon

6. Children and the Founding of Manchukuo: The Young Girl Ambassadors as Promoters of Friendship

Koresawa Hiroaki

PART THREE: ASIA-PACIFIC WAR

7. Reversing the Gaze: The Construction of “Adulthood” in the Wartime Diaries of Japanese Children and Youth

Aaron William Moore

8. Outdoor Play in Wartime Japan

L. Halliday Piel

9. “…And my heart screams”: Children and the War of Emotions

Sabine Frühstück

PART FOUR: CONTEMPORARY JAPAN

10. From Grade Schooler to Great Star: Childhood Development and the “Golden Age” in the World of Japanese Soccer

Elise Edwards

11. Treatment and Intervention for Children with Developmental Disabilities

Junko Teruyama

12. Food, Affect, and Experiments in Care: Constituting a “Household-like” Child Welfare Institution in Japan

Kathryn E. Goldfarb

13. Monju-kun: Children’s Culture as Protest

Noriko Manabe

Contributors