Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nasty boys or obedient children? : childhood and relative autonomy in medieval Japanese monasteries / Or Porath

Growing up manly : male Samurai childhood in late Edo Era Tosa / Luke Roberts

For the love of children : practice, affect, and subjectivities in Hirata Atsutane's household / Anne Walthall

Consumer consumption for children : conceptions of childhood in the work of Taish' period designers / Jinno Yuki

'Children in the wind' : reexamining the golden age of childhood film in interwar and wartime Japan / Harald Salomon

Children and the founding of Manchukuo : young girl and women ambassadors from Manchukuo and the Concordia society / Koresawa Hiroaki

Reversing the gaze : the construction of 'adulthood' in the wartime diaries of Japanese children and youths / Aaron Moore

Outdoor play in wartime Japan / Halliday Piel

'... and my heart screams' : children and the war of emotions / Sabine Frühstück

From grade school to great star : childhood development and the 'golden age' in the world of Japanese soccer / Elise Edwards

Treatment and intervention for children with developmental disabilities / Junko Teruyama

Food and affect : constituting a 'household-like' child welfare institution in Japan / Kathryn Goldfarb

Monju-kun : children's culture as protest / Noriko Manabe