Kimitaka Matsuzato Introduction: Empire Studies in Japan
Akihito Kudo Recognized Legal Disorder: French Colonial Rule in
Algeria, c. 1840-1900
Toshihiro Higuchi The Biological Blowback of Empire? The Collapse
of
the Japanese Empire and the Influx of the “Deadly
Environment,” 1945-1952
Kazuhiko Yago The Anatomy and Pathology of Empire: Three Balance
Sheets of Russian and Soviet Banks
Kiyohiko Sugiyama The Qing Empire in the Central Eurasian
Context:
Its Structure of Rule as Seen from the Eight Banner
System
Toyomi Asano The Collapse of the Japanese Empire and the
Normalization of Its Relations with South Korea
(1945-1965): Repatriation, Reparations, and External
Assets Reconsidered