Drugs and the politics of consumption in Japan / edited by Judith Vitale, Oleg Benesch and Miriam Kingsberg Kadia

• Superior document: Brill's Japanese Studies Library 74
• TeilnehmendeR: Benesch, Oleg; Kadia, Miriam Kingsberg; Vitale, Judith
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Boston : Brill, 2023; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Japanese Studies Library 74
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (300 pages) :; illustrations.

In early modern Japan, upper status groups coveted pills and powders made of exotic foreign ingredients such as mummy and rhinoceros horn. By the early twentieth century, over-the-counter-patent medicines, and, more alarmingly, morphine, had become mass commodities, fueling debates over opiates in J...

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Figures and Tables
• Introduction: Drugs and the Politics of Consumption in Japan
• Part 1 Drug Commerce and Consumption in the Early Modern Period
• Chapter 1 Early Modern Japan and the Problem of "Drugs"
• Chapter 2 Wondrous Worms and Exotic Drugs: Chasing the "Parasites of the Five Viscera" in a Nichibunken Manuscript
• Chapter 3 Peoples' Remedies or Social Poisons: Toyama Patent Medicines, Japan's Biomedical Regime, and the Problem of Consumer Capitalism
• Chapter 4 Opium Production in the Early Meiji Period: The Influence of the Traditional Distribution System
• Part 2 Opium and Empire
• Chapter 5 "Nothing Less Than Gentlemen": Social Activities and Spaces of Opium Smoking in Taiwan from the Qing Period to the Japanese Colonial Period
• Chapter 6 The House of Samuel: Opium Supplier to Taiwan and Manchuria, 1896-1926
• Chapter 7 The Japanese Right Wing and the Drug Trade, 1923-1945
• Chapter 8 Opiate Addiction in Prewar Japan
• Chapter 9 From Other to Self: Illegal Drug "Addicts" in Imperial and Post-Imperial Japanese Fiction
• Part 3 Drugs in Postwar Japan
• Chapter 10 The Drugs of War and Empire: Narcotics Consumption and Trafficking during the Occupation of Japan, 1945-1952
• Chapter 11 The Politics of Violence, Glue-Sniffing, and Liberation: Exclusions and Possibilities in 1968 Japan
• Chapter 12 Japan's Magic Mushroom Moment: Legality, Morality, and Identity in the Heisei Era
• Conclusion: Early Scholarship on Drugs in Japanese History
• Index.