Works (26)
2021 article
In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan's Borderless Empire
JOURNAL OF JAPANESE STUDIES, Vol. 47, pp. 224–228.

2019 article
The Affect of Difference: Representations of Race in East Asian Empire
JAPAN FORUM, Vol. 31, pp. 132–134.
2019 report
2018 monograph
Japan's Imperial Underworlds
2018 book
Japan's Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire
In Cambridge University Press. http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/history/east-asian-history/japans-imperial-underworlds-intimate-encounters-borders-empire?format=HB#mqE3ckz4xLcBIUva.97
2016 review
Daily Life in Wartime Japan, 1940-1945
[Review of ]. Journal of Military History, 80(4), 1263–1264.
2014 article
Tokyo vernacular: Common spaces, local histories, found objects
American Historical Review, Vol. 119, pp. 1676–1677.
2013 journal article
Dans le piège du fourmilion: Japonaises et Fujianais aux marges de l’Empire et de la nation
Vingtième Siècle: Revue d’Histoire, 120(4), 125–137.
2011 article
Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road
Ambaras, D. R. (2011, December). AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, Vol. 116, pp. 1462–1463.
2010 book review
Ruffians, Yakuza, nationalists: the violent politics of modern Japan, 1860–1960
[Review of Ruffians, Yakuza, nationalists: the violent politics of modern Japan, 1860–1960, by E. M. Siniawer]. Global Crime, 11(1), 71–73.
2010 book
Topographies of Distress: Tokyo, c. 1930
2010 book review
Uchida Hyakken: A Critique of Modernity and Militarism in Prewar Japan. By Rachel DiNitto. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2008. x, 285 pp. $39.95 (cloth).
[Review of Uchida Hyakken: A Critique of Modernity and Militarism in Prewar Japan, by R. DiNitto]. The Journal of Asian Studies, 69(3), 902–904.
2010 review
Uchida hyakken: A critique of modernity and militarism in prewar Japan.
[Review of ]. Journal of Asian Studies, 69(3), 902–904.
2008 article
Under an Imperial Sun: Japanese colonial literature of Taiwan and the south
Ambaras, D. R. (2008, February). JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES, Vol. 67, pp. 323–325.
2006 book
Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan
2006 article
Burning and building: Schooling and state formation in Japan, 1750-1890.
MONUMENTA NIPPONICA, Vol. 61, pp. 115–117.
2006 review
House and home in modern Japan: Architecture, domestic space, and bourgeois culture, 1880-1920
[Review of ]. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 66(1), 255–259.
2004 review
Juvenile delinquency and the national defense state: Policing young workers in wartime Japan, 1937-1945
[Review of ]. JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES, 63(1), 31–60.
2004 journal article
The new Japanese woman: Modernity, media, and women in interwar Japan
Monumenta Nipponica, 59(1), 129–131.
2003 review
The human tradition in modern Japan
[Review of ]. Journal of Japanese Studies, 29(1), 103–106.
2002 review
Becoming apart: National power and local politics in Toyama, 1868-1945
[Review of ]. Social History, 27(3), 404.
2001 article
The pursuit of power in modern Japan, 1825-1995.
Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 32, p. 513.
2000 article
Passages to modernity: Motherhood, childhood, and social reform in early twentieth-century Japan
MONUMENTA NIPPONICA, Vol. 55, pp. 293–296.

2000 review
Passages to modernity: Motherhood, childhood, and social reform in early twentieth-century Japan
[Review of ]. Monumenta Nipponica, 55(2), 293–296.
1999 review
Mirror of modernity: Invented traditions of modern Japan, ed. by Stephen Vlastos
1998 review
Social knowledge, cultural capital, and the new middle class in Japan, 1895-1912
[Review of ]. JOURNAL OF JAPANESE STUDIES, 24(1), 1–33.

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