Moral nation : modern Japan and narcotics in global history

Kadia, Miriam Kingsberg 1981- (Author).

Summary: This trailblazing study examines the history of narcotics in Japan to explain the development of global criteria for political legitimacy in nations and empires in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Japan underwent three distinct crises of sovereignty in its modern history: in the 1890s, during the interwar period, and in the 1950s. Each crisis provoked successively escalating crusades against opium and other drugs, in which moral entrepreneurs--bureaucrats, cultural producers, merchants, law enforcement, scientists, and doctors, among others--focused on drug use as a means of distinguishi.

Record details

ISBN: 0520276736
ISBN: 9780520276734
ISBN: 9781306133760
ISBN: 1306133769
ISBN: 0520957482
ISBN: 9780520957480
Physical Description: 1 online resource (325 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]
Copyright: ©2013

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Moral crusade in Meiji Japan -- Drug users in the epicenter of consumption -- Cultural producers and the Japanese empire -- Cultural producers and Manchukuo -- Merchants -- Law enforcement -- Laboratory scientists -- Medical doctors -- Moral panic in postwar Japan.
Language Note:	English.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.