Introduction: Japan's Wartime Empire: Problems and Issues / Peter Duus -- Ch. 1. Total War, Industrialization, and Social Change in Late Colonial Korea / Carter J. Eckert -- Ch. 2. The Kominka Movement in Taiwan and Korea: Comparisons and Interpretation/ Wan-yao Chou -- Ch. 3. Imagined Empire: The Cultural Construction of Manchukuo / Louise Young -- Ch. 4. Managing Occupied Manchuria, 1931-1934 / Y. Tak Matsusaka -- Ch. 5. Creating a Modern Enclave Economy: The Economic Integration of Japan, Manchuriaand North China, 1932-1945 / Ramon H. Myers -- Ch. 6. The Yen Bloc, 1931-1941 / Takafusa Nakamura -- Ch. 7. Nanshin: The "Southward Advance," 1931-1941, as a Prelude to the Japanese Occupation of Southeast Asia / Mark R. Peattie -- Ch. 8. Anomaly or Mod? Independent Thailand's Role in Japan's Asian Strategy, 1941-1943 / E. Bruce Reynolds -- Ch. 9. Cooperation, Submission, and Resistance of Indigenous Elites of Southeast Asia in the Wartime Empire / Ken'ichi Goto.Ch. 10. The "Comfort Women" / George Hicks -- Ch. 11. The Postwar Economic Legacy of Japan's Wartime Empire / Hideo Kobayashi -- Ch. 12. Reflections on the Japanese and German Empires of World War II / L. H. Gann.