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A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S I am grateful for everything Pat Crosby and her staff at the University of Hawai‘i Press, as well as copy editor Drew Bryan, have done to bring this book to publication . While working on the manuscript I also benefited from a number of colleagues in Japan. For meeting with me there, answering my questions, or sending me materials, I thank Tom Kirchner, Tokiwa Gishin, Abe Masao, Ishii Kōsei, Nishimura Eshin, Ichikawa Hiroshi, Yamaori Tetsuo, Tsurumi Shunsuke, Yanagida Seizan, Kōno Taitsū Rōshi, Jeff Shore, Kirita Kiyohide, Horio Tsutomu, Nakao Hiroshi , Maeda Naomi, Ueda Shizuteru, Tokiyuki Nobuhara, Dennis Hirota, Inoue Takami, and Akizuki Ryōmin. I especially want to thank Wayne Yokoyama, who on numerous occasions helped me with my research on this book and over many years has served as the local bodhisattva for scholars visiting Kyoto. I am also indebted to an array of colleagues outside of Japan. Richard Jaffe commented on a draft of chapter one and Suzanne Barnett critiqued a section of chapter two. For their assistance and comments on the manuscript or responses to related conference presentations, I also thank Steve Heine, John Nelson, Bill LaFleur, Sallie King, Jim Heisig, John Maraldo, Brian Victoria, Dan Leighton, John Makransky, Dennis Lishka, John Dower, Stuart Lachs, Bob Sharf, Jamie Hubbard, Ina Buitendijk, Helen Hardacre, Mark Blum, Ken Pyle, Cameron Hurst, John Treat, Herb Bix, Ken Kraft, Dale Wright, Micah Auerback, Jin Park, Michiko Yusa, Jackie Stone, Hal Roth, Youru Wang, Jay Ford, Ruben Habito, Janine Sawada, Chris Queen, Ryū’ichi Abe, Tak Fujitani, Alex Vesey, Stuart Smithers, Karl Fields, and Andrew Goble, among others. Needless to say, though these and other colleagues have contributed immensely to my writing of this book, any mistakes or inaccuracies herein are solely my responsibility. >M M ACKNOWLEDGMENTS At various stages this project was also supported by grants from the Fulbright -Hays Faculty Research Abroad Program (1993), Social Science Research Council (1998), the National Endowment for the Humanities (1998), the University of Puget Sound (1991), and Stonehill College (2006). I thank my administrative assistant, Wendy Hanawalt, for her help inputting changes into one draft of the manuscript. I am also grateful to the Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies, whose generosity has enabled me to work in the Harvard-Yenching Library. Several published articles originally grew out of the manuscript, and I have folded them back into it. I thank Steve Heine, editor of Japan Studies Review, for permission to integrate into chapter seven a few pages of “Wartime Nationalism and Peaceful Representation: Issues Surrounding the Multiple Zens of Modern Japan” (2001). I thank Nitta Tomomichi and the other editors of the Eastern Buddhist for giving me permission to use in chapters four and five portions of “Protect the Dharma, Protect the Country: The Continuing Question of Buddhist War Responsibility” (XXXIII, no. 2; 2001). Chapters three and seven include portions of three articles I published in the Journal of Buddhist Ethics: “What’s Compassion Got to Do with It? Determinants of Zen Social Ethics in Japan” (vol. 12, 2005); “Not Buying in to Words and Letters: Zen, Ideology, and Prophetic Critique” (13, 2006); and “Deploying the Dharma: Reflections on the Methodology of Constructive Buddhist Ethics” (16, 2009). I am also grateful to John Eusden, a true mentor, who introduced me to Zen thirty-five years ago at Williams College, and to Hiroshi and Michiko Uchibori, who with great warmth and generosity introduced me directly to the cultural richness of Japan. And finally, I thank my wife, Mishy Lesser, for her patience and loving spirit through the ten-year gestation of this book. If there is such a thing as karma, she has surely accrued a mountain of merit for always giving me space to disappear into my study and pour myself into this project. ...

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