Introduction: Japan and the transformation of national identities in Asia in the imperial era / Li Narangoa, Robert Cribb -- Icon of Japan in nationalist revolutionary discourse in India, 1890-1910 / Victor A. van Bijlert -- Japanese strategic and political involvement in Siberia and the Russian Far East, 1917-1922 / Eva-Maria Stolberg -- Japanese expansion and Tibetan independence / Paul Hyer -- Mongol nationalism and Japan / Nakami Tatsuo -- Japanese 'civilization critics' and the national identity of their Asian neighbours, 1918-1932: the case of Yoshino Sakuzō / Dick Stegewerns -- Assimilation rejected : the Tong'a ilbo's challenge to Japan's colonial policy in Korea / Mark E. Caprio -- Evil empire? Competing constructions of Japanese imperialism in Manchuria, 1928-1937 / Rana Mitter -- Japanese threat and Stalin's policies towards Outer Mongolia (1932-1939) / Tsedendambyn Batbayar -- Problem of identity and the Japanese engagement in North China / Marjorie Dryburgh -- Vietnamese nationalist revolutionaries and the Japanese occupation: the case of the Dai Viet parties (1936-1946) / François Guillemot -- Accord and discord : Japanese cultural policy and Philippine national identity during the Japanese occupation (1942-1945) / Ricardo T. Jose -- Japanization in Indonesia re-examined : the problem of self-sufficiency in clothing / Shigeru Satō -- Transformation of Taiwanese attitudes toward Japan in the post-colonial period / Huang Chih-huei -- Afterword: Japanese imperialism and the politics of loyalty -- Appendix: Postage stamps and Japanese imperialism / Li Narangoa, Robert Cribb.