"This book is an important, systematic account of punishment and
prisons in Japan from the Tokugawa period through the nineteenth
century. Botsman shows quite well the ways that punishment has
transformed over almost three centuries, and connects this to
political power. The richness of detail--images of beheadings with
a saw, severed heads, crucified bodies, crowded jails, and
Benthamlike prisons--will no doubt stay with readers."--Stefan
Tanaka, University of California, San Diego, author of "New Times
in Modern Japan"
"I enjoyed reading this book, and learned a lot from it. Botsman
avoids both the trap of attributing the rise of a modern penal
complex in Japan to some authoritarian essence from time immemorial
and the folly of placing all the causative weight on Western
imperialism and Western ideas of crime and punishment. Further, he
offers an explanation for the methods of colonization that Japanese
colonialism adopted when it expanded into Asia. His clearly written
work adds the significant experience of Japan to the literature on
the emergence of modern systems of punishment and contributes to
the comparative understanding of non-Western modernities."--Gyan
Prakash, Princeton University, author of "Another Reason"
"A scholarly tour de force. This book is a unique contribution
to a field of historical study that has, in the past, been marked
either by a concern for central political institutions or
intellectual history. Until now, there has been no serious work on
Tokugawa and Meiji penal practices. But Botsman, by weaving the
discursive strands of thinking about punishment into the fabric of
institutional practice, has managed to give us an exemplary
cultural history thatexceeds both its temporal and spatial
location."--Harry Harootunian, New York University, author of
"Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture," and "Community in
Interwar Japan"
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