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ix Acknowledgments The guidance and assistance of others in this project on Japan and the League of Nations extends over a career in Japanese history. For help in the early stages during graduate school, I owe deep gratitude to Roger Hackett, Roger Dingman, Ernest Young, Bradford Perkins, Naomi Fukuda, William Hoover, Warren Cohen, and Jerry Voris Burkman. In the first stints of research and consultation in Japan, Hosoya Chihiro opened to me his Hitotsubashi University graduate seminar, his personal library, and his invaluable connections. I am also indebted to Nakami Mari, Kurokawa Shūji, James Morley, David C. S. Sissons , Makino Sumiko, Asō Kazuko, Yoshida Ken’ichi, Takemi Tarō, Itō Harumasa, Ōkubo Toshikane, Satō Seizaburō, Eto Shinkichi, Mitani Taichirō, Oka Yoshitake, Miwa Kimitada, Ikei Masaru, Asada Sadao, Ogata Sadako, Takeuchi Tatsuji, Miyake Masaki, Chō Yukio, Fujiwara Akira, Kibata Yōichi, William Carter, and Ian Nish. I acknowledge the invaluable help of archivists: the National Diet Library’s Hirose Yoshihiro, Unno Yoshirō of the Foreign Ministry Archives, the Shibusawa Eiichi Memorial Foundation’s Igarashi Takashi, and Sven Welander of the United Nations Library in Geneva. As the project progressed, I received critical and helpful input from many scholars, including Georges Oshiro, John Howes, Frederick Dickinson, Gary Allinson , Kitaoka Shin’ichi, Dick Stegewerns, Itō Michiko, Shibata Shin’ichi, Martin David Dubin, Katagiri Nobuo, Hoshino Toshiya, Rustin Gates, Jessamyn Abel, Klaus Schlichtmann, and Hirano Kenichirō. Mitsuaki Shimojo, Hiyoshi Nohoko, and Miyazawa Naomi helped in the reading and translation of difficult documentary materials. In the final stages of revision and editing, I was aided by the advice of Akira Iriye, Kevin Doak, Roger Des Forges, Robert Kane, Claude Welch, and Richard Smethurst. Through a manuscript workshop, the University at Buffalo’s Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy enabled a critical review prior to publication. Li Zhen and Mary Anne Lang of the University at Buffalo Asian Studies Program provided invaluable research and secretarial assistance. Taga Toshiyuki and Takeko Nitobe Katoh helped locate photographs. The publisher, the University of Hawai‘i Press, practiced patience and provided unmatched editorial expertise through Patricia Crosby, Keith Leber, and freelancers Rosemary Wetherold and Lori Paximadis. RoutledgeCurzon, Perseus Books Group, and Princeton University Press generously granted permission to include previously published segments. A number of institutions provided financial support: the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the Center for Japanese Studies and the Rackham School of the University of Michigan, Colby College, the College of Arts and Letters of Old Dominion University, the U.S. Department of Education Fulbright Program, the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Hamilton College, and the College of Arts and Sciences of the University at Buffalo. Tokyo University and Seijo University provided visiting research appointments at key junctures. Special thanks go to Ōkuma Hiroshi of Seijō University and bibliographer Frank Joseph Shulman, who were close to the project at its inception and believed in it to its completion. They were unstinting in their help at various stages. My wife, Lani Johnson Burkman, and my children exhibited uncommon forbearance and instilled the confidence that carried it to fruition. x Acknowledgments ...

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