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Acknowledgments This book is the culmination of work first conceived in my master’s program more than a decade ago at the University of Colorado. As such I need to start my acknowledgments by giving thanks to Edmund Gilday, who encouraged me then and continues to support my efforts. Because of that start I was able to continue my studies at Stanford University under the guidance of Professors Bernard Faure and Carl Bielefeldt, who both continue to inspire me to better my scholarship and become a teacher who motivates and inspires. I would also like to thank my fellow students at Stanford with whom I forged lifelong personal and professional bonds, especially those with whom I spent long hours in samadhi under the Bodhi Tree outside the Coho—you know who you are. I must also acknowledge the patience, persistence, and criticisms of my readers and editors at the University of Hawai‘i Press, especially Patricia Crosby. She saw the value in this project from the beginning and forced me to make my work better than I thought it could be. If I appear articulate and somewhat literate that is where the credit lies. I also must thank my wife Kelly for making my work intelligible. She proofed, edited, and critiqued every line before anyone else, for which she did not always receive my highest words of praise. It is also clear to me that I could not have written this book without someone picking up the slack on the home and work front when I stayed home all day writing and cursing while living in our rabbit hutch those wonderful years in Yokohama. So double and triple thanks are due to Kelly. I would also like to remember and thank in print my departed parents Wilburn Nels Hansen Sr. and Mitsue Ishikawa. If you do not like what you read in the book then blame the Pacific War for bringing those two opposites together. ...

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