Part I. Caucasians and race in Imperial Japan: 1. Racism, race consciousness, and Imperial Japan: A normative racism
Aspects of race consciousness in Imperial Japan
Sources of cognitive dissonance
2. Privilege and prejudice: being a westerner in Imperial Japan: Early foreign settlements
Ornaments in isolation: the Frank and Balk families
Class insularity at Western resorts
3. Handling the other within: approaches to preemptive containment (1939-41): Direct and indirect forms of containment
Japan's "Jewish Problem" and the Kobe community
A repressed, mobilized Christianity
Part II. Lives in limbo: containment in the wake of Pearl Harbor: 4. First responses and containment protocols after Pearl Harbor (1941-43): A new taxonomy of foreigners
Temporary detentions of suspicious enemy nationals
Enemy diplomatic staff under house arrest
Racialized others: Jews and Asians
5. Watched and unseen: non-enemy nationals after Pearl Harbor (1941-43): Fracture and emotional conflict
Withdrawal and invisibility
Japanese ambivalence and anti-foreign sentiment
6. Fleeing for the hills: evacuee communities in Hakone and Karuizawa (1943-45): "Running smoothly" in Gora
Karuizawa: a "strange miniature Babel"
Part III. Lives behind walls: Japan's treatment of enemy civilians: 7. From humiliation to hunger: the internment of enemy nationals (1941-45): Camp administration
The initial wave (1941-42)
Stringency and privation (1942-45)
8. Torture and testimony: the incarceration of suspected spies (1944-45): Interrogation
9. Race war?: on japanese pragmatism and racial ambivalence: The failure of propaganda
Continuity and change following the surrender.
