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In this groundbreaking work, Susan L. Burns examines the history of leprosy in Japan from medieval times until the present. At the centre of Kingdom of the Sick is the rise of Japan's system of national leprosy sanitaria, which today continue to house more than 1, 500 former patients, many of whom have spent five or more decades within them.

Shows how a modern nationalism was constructed in Japan from existing notions of community, at a time before the idea of "nation.

Shows how a modern nationalism was constructed in Japan from existing notions of community, at a time before the idea of "nation.

Beginning in the nineteenth century, law as practice, discourse, and ideology became a powerful means of reordering gender relations in modern nation-states. This volume puts developments in Japan and its empire in dialogue with this global phenomenon. An international group of contributors explores how in Japan and its colonies law became a fundamental means of creating and regulating gendered subjects and social norms in the period from the ...